The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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