Random United States Facts

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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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    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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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