Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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