In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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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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There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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