In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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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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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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The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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