One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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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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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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In 1963, the US Military created an artificial ring around Earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.
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Denver, Colorado, USA now has more marijuana dispensaries than it does Starbucks.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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