Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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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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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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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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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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