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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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