There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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