In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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