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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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