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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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There is a county in California called Yolo.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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