The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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