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    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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    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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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    The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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