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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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