The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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