In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
7
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
9
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
70
50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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