On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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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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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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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 the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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