According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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