In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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