One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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 United States does not have an official language.
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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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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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