Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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 first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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