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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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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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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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