Random American Facts

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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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    As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are still on it.
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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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    In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy weather affected cloud computing.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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