Random United States Facts

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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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    Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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    Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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