American Traditions That Confuse The Rest of the World

Sales Tax

Where did sales tax even come from? Many European and Asian countries don't implement it in retail or food shopping. The sales tax is never a part of the initial price of the item, which makes pretty much no sense. And it varies from state to state to make it even more confusing.

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The More You Know

  • The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.
  • If you ate nothing but rabbit meat, you would die from protein poisoning.
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