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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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