There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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 United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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