Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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