One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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