Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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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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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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In the US, there are quite a few cities called Gaylord.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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