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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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 six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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