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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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 consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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 Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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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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