There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
56
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.
97
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76