Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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