The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
330
Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
17
Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
15
Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
9