Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
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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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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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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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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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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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