There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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