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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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 United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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