On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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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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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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