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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203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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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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