One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
51
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
329
In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
45
The United States does not have an official language.
88
Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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