Random United States Facts

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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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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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    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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    The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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