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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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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