Random United States Facts

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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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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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 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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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