Random United States Facts

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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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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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    Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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