Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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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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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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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.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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