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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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    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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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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