Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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