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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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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