Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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