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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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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