Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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