On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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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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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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