In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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