In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
7
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
15
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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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.
17
US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
7
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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