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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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