Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    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!
    117
    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
    2
    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
    -86
    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
    223
    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
    65
    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
    27
    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.
    72
    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
    75