Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
97
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
299
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
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.
70