Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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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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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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