Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Chanel Tapper, a student from California, USA, has the world's longest tongue, measuring 9.75 cm (3.8 inches), from tip to top lip!
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