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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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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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There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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