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.
225
The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
27
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
42
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.
17