On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
5
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.
7
Seven U.S. states are named after sovereigns - four kings and three queens.
5
In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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