In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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 United States does not have an official language.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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