Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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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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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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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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