Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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