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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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