Random United States Facts

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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 Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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