On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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			203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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			The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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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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			The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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			The United States does not have an official language.
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