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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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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 US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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