The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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