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    Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
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    About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.
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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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    China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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    Yucatán Name
    Yucatán Name
    The Mexican state of Yucatán was named so after a misunderstanding when the Spaniards arrived and asked the locals what they called the place. The locals replied "Yucatan" which means "I don’t understand you" in their native tongue.
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    The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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    Sweden is so good at recycling, it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs.
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