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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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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