Random America Facts

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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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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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    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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    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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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