Random United States Facts

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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 United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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 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 United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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