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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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