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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The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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