One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
196
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
65
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
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100