Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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