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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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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In March, 2014, Colorado sold $19 million dollars worth of Cannabis. $1.9 million went to schools and crime fell by 10%.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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