Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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