On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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The United States does not have an official language.
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Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
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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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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