Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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