Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year 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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    The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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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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    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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