On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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