There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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