The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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