Random United States Facts

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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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    A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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