Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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