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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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The United States does not have an official language.
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