Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
65
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
36
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
27
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.
17
Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
55