The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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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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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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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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