On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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