On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
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.
70
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.
2
Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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