The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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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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