According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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