Random United States Facts

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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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