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.
76
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
The United States does not have an official language.
88
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
329
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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