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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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