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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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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