One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
45
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
299
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.
11
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
65
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
5