Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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