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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There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
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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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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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The United States does not have an official language.
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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 Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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