On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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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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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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