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Only in the USA!!!!

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Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete. He makes around $80 million per year (or $219,000 per day).

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Between 1990 and 2005, only one CEO received more than $1 billion in total compensation -- Citigroup's Sanford I. Weill.

In 2005, the US government spent about $71 billion for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons of vegetation a day.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to adult content online.

Rapper Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

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