One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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