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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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