There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
75
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
36