Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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