Random United States Facts

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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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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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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 retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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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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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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