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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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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    A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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