Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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