Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
17
The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
298
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
15
The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
36