The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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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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