Random America Facts

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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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    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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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    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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