Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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