Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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 consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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