Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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 Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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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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