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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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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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