Random United States Facts

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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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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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    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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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