Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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