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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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