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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    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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 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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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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 United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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