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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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    A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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    16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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