Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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