In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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Al Capone's armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 32nd President of the US, after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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The US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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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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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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