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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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