The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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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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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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