On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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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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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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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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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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