Random United States Facts

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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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 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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