In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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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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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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