On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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