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 United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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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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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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