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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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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