The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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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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