On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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