One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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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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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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