In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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