According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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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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