Ø Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
Ø
Americans
spend more time at shopping malls than anywhere else outside their homes and
jobs.
Ø
Chances that a burglary in the U.S. will be solved: 1 in 7.
Ø
Did
you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a
poisonous spider?
Ø
Experienced
waitresses say that married men tip better than unmarried men.
Ø
Forty
percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
Ø
More
people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Ø
More
than 10 percent of all the salt produced annually in the world is used to de-ice
American roads.
Ø
Most
fatal car accidents happen on a Saturday.
Ø
Nowadays,
50% of all people who get married get divorced.
Ø
Number
of 30-second commercials seen in a year by the average child: 20,000
(The rabbit is never getting those Trix, son. I'm sorry.)
Ø
Odds
of being killed by a dog are 1 in 700,000.
Ø
Odds
of being killed by a tornado are 1 in 2 million.
Ø
Odds
of being killed in a car crash are 1 in 5000.
Ø
Odds
of dying in the bathtub are 1 in 1 million.
Ø
One
sixth of all Americans, an estimated 43 million people, move each year.
Ø
One-fourth
of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people
survive on less than $75 a year.
Ø
Percentage
of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%.
Ø
Percentage
of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%.
Ø
Percentage
of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
Ø
Statistically,
the safest age of life is 10 years old.
Ø
Sweden
has the least number of murders annually.
Ø
The
average American moves 12 times in a lifetime.
Ø
The
average number of passengers airborne over the US each hour is 61,000.
Ø
The
average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
Ø
The
average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items.
Ø
The
average person takes 9,000 steps a day.
Ø
The
average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic
light to change.
Ø
The
average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Ø
The
murder rate in the United States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no
private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
Ø
There
are three times as many households in the United States without telephones as
there are without television sets.
Ø
There
are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Ø
Thirty-five
percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Ø
Traveling
by air is the safest means of transportation.
Ø
Twelve
babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
Ø
Two
out of five husbands tell their wife daily that they love them.
Ø
You
are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
Ø
160
cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest
road.
Ø New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
Ø If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Hope you learned something! Albeit,
it may have been useless knowledge - but, hey, I'm sure there was something
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