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.
57
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
53
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72