One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
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