Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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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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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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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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