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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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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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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