During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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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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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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