Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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