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How Much Currency Was Counterfeit During the Civil War?

In fact, following the Civil War, it was estimated that one-third to one-half of the currency in circulation was counterfeit.

Americans spend on their pets grew to $103.6 billion in 2020 – that is nearly $13.1 billion more than in 2018.

In 2020, USA's pet industry, according to the American Pet Products Association (APPA), made history by reaching US$103.6 billion in sales.

United States consumers spent more than US$14 billion on jeans in 2004 and US$15 billion in 2005.

The International Space Station is the world's most-expensive man-made object, with a total cost of over $150 billion.

On 1 April 2013, The Supreme Court in India dismissed Novartis AG's appeal for patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec.

A total of eleven people, ten male and one female, were executed in the United States in 2021, all by lethal injection.

There is 1 divorce approximately every 36 seconds, that's nearly 2,400 divorces per day.

Heart disease is the number one cause of death for women.

George Washington is the only U.S. president to have received 100% of the electoral votes.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state with a majority Asian American population, at 58%.

Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon gave it its name, meaning 'flowery land.'

The Enrollment Act of 1863 provided that a draftee could pay a 'substitute' enrollee the sum of $300 in order to enlist in his place.

Though Christmas was not as widely celebrated in the early 1800s, it was not illegal throughout the country.

California's population is 39.5 million. The total population of the US is 327.2 million. So 1 of every 8 people in the US live in California.

Every 13 minutes, a woman dies from breast cancer in the U.S.