The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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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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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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