Random United States Facts

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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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    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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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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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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