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Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
It's against the law in Kansas to catch fish with your bare hands.
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Maine is the only state a one-syllable name.
There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.
Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.