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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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