Random United States Facts

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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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