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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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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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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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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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