FACTS ABOUT USA 8
- 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
- 18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation.
- The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
- The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years.
- The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington.
- The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
- In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
- The least likely day to eat out in the United States is Monday.
- Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
- Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually.
- Each year the Pentagon estimates their computer network is hacked about 250,000 times annually.
- In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.
- Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
- In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles.
- There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA.
- In the year 2000, there were approximately 11,000 injuries that were treated in a hospital in the U.S. that resulted from fireworks.
- Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida.
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