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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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