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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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 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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The largest hotel suite in the world is located 22 stories under the surface in the Grand Canyon Caverns. One night for two people in this 65 million year old cave is $700.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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