In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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