In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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