One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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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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