Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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