The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
45
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
76