The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
27
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
36
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
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!
117
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76