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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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