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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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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    According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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    Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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