Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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