Ninety percent of U.S. households have at lease one remote control for the television; 8 out of 10 report losing it.
The state of Maine produces 98 percent of the nation's low-bush blueberries.
No one knows how many people live in the country of Bhutan. As of 1975, no census had ever been taken.
The state with the most automobile miles driven per capita is Delaware, racking up an average of 10,165 miles average annually per person.
Occasionally, hot dog sales at baseball stadiums exceed attendance, but typically, hot dog sales at ballparks average 80 percent of the attendance.
The steel industry in 1943 introduced the 5-day, 40-hour work week. Henry Ford adopted it in 1926.
Of devout coffee drinkers, about 62 percent of those who are 35 to 49 years of age say they become upset if they don't have a cup of coffee at their regular time. Only 50 percent of those under age 35 become upset.
The U.S. Library of Congress has compiled a 232-source bibliography on the subject of when, properly speaking, centuries roll over. Almost all of the sources agree that the twentieth century will not end until December 31, 2000.
Of the 15,000-odd known species of orchids in the world, 3,000 of them can be found in Brazil.
The U.S. produces 19 percent of the world's trash. The annual contribution includes 20 billion disposable diapers, 2 billion razors, and 1.7 billion pens.
On a bingo card of 90 numbers, there are approximately 44 million ways to make B-I-N-G-O.
The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
On the average, more animals are killed by motorists than by hunters with guns.
One airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways, discovered that it takes in an average of 18 cents per passenger per flight in loose change found in the plane's seats. If that figure holds for the approximate 320 million people who fly from one country to another worldwide each year, the total is about $58 million. Lost coins on domestic flights don't amount to much, however. Chicago O'Hare cleaning crews said they found only about 6 cents per flight. It is suggested that more travelers to other countries "accidentally" leave foreign coins behind to avoid dealing with them once they get home.
The United States produces the world's largest crop of soybeans. China is the second largest producer.
The world chicken population is more than double the human population, while the world cattle population outnumbers the population of China.
One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings. Approximately 2.8 million are made each year.
The world’s largest collection of genealogical information is kept in Salt Lake City, Utah, belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Only 3 percent of Americans ages 18 to 21 attended college in 1890.
The Writers Guild of America Registration Office states that approximately 20,000 movie scripts are registered with the Guild each year and that, of these, less than 1 percent are picked up by a studio and made into a film.
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