The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
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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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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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