Random United States Facts

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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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