There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
15
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
54
Forest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s. Today, we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.
14
The average American spends a third of their overall time online playing games and using social networks.
298
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
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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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
7