One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
-86
The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
5
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
17
A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
225
On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
57