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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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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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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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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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