On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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