One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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