Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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