Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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 first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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