Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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