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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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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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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