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 Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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