Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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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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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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