On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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