A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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