The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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