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Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

Each year, more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of venereal disease.

Eighty percent of all people hit by lightning are men.

Every day in the U.S., about a hundred people over the age of 14 commit suicide, a 50 percent "jump" in the last decade.

The Coast Guard Academy in July of 1976 was the first U.S. service academy to admit women.

The country of Sweden has the most phones per capita.

Monaco boasts the highest per capita ownership of Rolls Royces in the world. An early 1990s survey put the figure at one for every 65 people

The country of Togo has the lowest crime rate in the world, with an average of just 11 reported crimes annually for every 100,000 of the population.

Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The death rate from cardiovascular diseases – heart attack, hardening of the arteries, and so on – has decreased in the United States since 1950.

More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

The Dow Jones average closed at over 3,000 for the first time in 1991. It topped 2,000 in 1987 and 1,000 in 1972.

More education means longer life. Research shows that college graduates live longer than people who did not complete high school.

The first minimum wage, of twenty-five cents, was established by Congress in 1938.

More men than women commit suicide in the United States.

The first Rolls-Royce sold for $600.00 in 1906. Today the cheapest model goes for close to $200,000.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

The game of Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world, licensed or sold in 80 countries and produced in 26 languages including Croatian.

More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other country: 11 percent of its population has red hair.

The game Scrabble is found in one out of every three American homes.

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