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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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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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