One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
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
No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
51
Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
299
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155