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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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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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    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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