Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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