Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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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The United States does not have an official language.
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