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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are still on it.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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