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 average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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