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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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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