A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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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 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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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