Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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