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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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