In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
82
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.
9
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
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
25
According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
223
Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
22
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
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155