The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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