Random United States Facts

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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 United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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    The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
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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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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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