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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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