In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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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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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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