Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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