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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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