On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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