One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
The United States does not have an official language.
88
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
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.
70