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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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    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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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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