Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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 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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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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