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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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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 Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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