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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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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