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.
76
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
36
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.
70
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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