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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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