The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 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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