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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
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