The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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