Random United States Facts

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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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    Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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