One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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