Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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