A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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