The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
There is a city in New Mexico called Truth or Consequences.
6
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.
11
According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
14
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
217
The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
4