Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
13
The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
51
You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
330
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
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
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
97
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
The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
15