The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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