According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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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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