In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
257
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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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
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
Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
17
In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
82
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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