Random United States Facts

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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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    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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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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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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