Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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 average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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