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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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 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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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 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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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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