The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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