Random United States Facts

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    Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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