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Recycling a 6-foot tall stack of newspapers saves the life of a 35-foot tall tree.

Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% of the garbage in the world.

An average American child watches 28 hours of television each week.

An average American throws away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.

Every day 34,000 children die f rom causes related to poverty and hunger.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Leomonade.

The average office worker spends 50 miniutes a day looking for lost files and other itmes. (not ME!)

1789 the total US fedweral government debt was $190,000 (heck, that's more than the average American family in 2006!)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (I've always loved dolphins--now I know why they're so happy!)

By the end of 2006 Jacksonville will have a total of 36 Starbuck Coffee shops! Phew, that's a lot of coffee lovers for one of the hottest states in the USA!