Random United States Facts

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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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 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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