Random United States Facts

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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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    Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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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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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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