The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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