The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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