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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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