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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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 first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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