Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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