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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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 some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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