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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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    In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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    No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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    Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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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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    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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