Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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.
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