The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
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.
8
Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
10
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
One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
122
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
299
