More than 110,000 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas each year. There are no blood tests and no waiting period required. The Marriage License Bureau is open from 8 a.m. until midnight, Sunday through Thursday and 24 hours a day on Friday and Saturday. The most popular wedding days are New Year's Eve and St. Valentine's Day. Settings range from Casino/Hotel Wedding Chapels to helicopter ceremonies high above the Las Vegas "Strip," or for those in a hurry to start the honeymoon – there are even drive-up wedding chapels.
The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr. Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques," which means an Indian chief.
More than 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women say they've forgotten their wedding anniversary at least once.
More than 50 percent of adults surveyed said that children should not be paid money for getting good grades in school.
Every year one out of five American families changes its place of residence.
Executives work an average 57 hours a week, but just 22 percent say their hours are a major cause of stress.
Father's Day is the holiday on which there are the greatest number of collect calls made in the United States.
Fifteen percent of Americans say they follow news about U.S. relations with other countries " very closely," another 50 percent follow it "somewhat closely," while 34 percent admit to not following it closely at all.
Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
Ford Motor Company manufactured one million cars for the first time in 1922. It hit the two million mark in 1923.
From one cord of wood, 7.5 million toothpicks can be produced.
From the 1850s to the 1880s, the most common cause of death among cowboys in the American West was being dragged by a horse while caught in the stirrups.
Half a billion people – about one of every eight – are suffering chronic malnutrition today.
Half of all murders are committed with handguns.
The Humane Society estimates that there are 800,000 dog bites that require medical attention every year. Dog bites rank second behind sexually transmitted diseases as the most costly health problem in the United States. Over 60 percent of those bitten are children, and 80 percent of the fatalities are also children.
The largest painting measures 92,419 square feet and was completed by ID Cultur in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 14, 1996.
More than 60 percent of all recipients of organ donations are between the ages of 18 and 49.
The literary collections in the New York Public Library expand at the rate of approximately 10,000 items per week, in dozens of languages.
More than 63 million Star Trek books, in more than 15 languages, are in print; 13 were sold every minute in the U.S. in 1995.
The longest recorded Monopoly game was 1,680 hours. That's over 70 days.
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