Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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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 average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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