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
The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
151
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
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.
28
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
2
Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
55
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