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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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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 turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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