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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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
2
There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
15
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
42
The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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