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.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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