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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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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