The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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