Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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