Strange & interesting facts about America.

Strange & Interesting Facts about America





#1 In more than half of all states in the United States of America, the
highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.

#2 It costs the U.S. Government 1.8 cents to mint a penny and 9.4
cents to mint a nickel.

#3 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny
out of their pay checks into savings.

#4 Apple has more cash than the U.S. Treasury.

#5 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode
Island .. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska
does.

#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. States
put together.

#7 The city of Juneau, Alaska, is about 3,000 square miles in size. It
is actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.

#8 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all U.S.
children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that number has
skyrocketed to 33 percent.

#9 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to
unmarried parents. Today, that number is over 40 percent.

#10 The poverty rate for households that are led by a married couple is
6.8 percent. For households that are led by a female single parent, the
poverty rate is 37.1 percent.

#11 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that
were awarded that year in the United States.

#12 According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in the U.S. are obese
at this point.

#13 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 lbs.
of food each year. Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent of the garbage that
goes into our landfills is food.

#14 According to one recent survey, 81 percent of Russians now have a
negative view of the United States. That is much higher than at the end of
the Cold War era.

#15 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

#16 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no
grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

#17 One recent survey discovered that “a steady job” is the number one
thing that American women are looking for in a husband, and discovered that
75 percent of women would have a serious problem dating an unemployed man.

#18 According to a study conducted by economist Carl Benedict Frey and
engineer Michael Osborne, up to 47 percent of the jobs in the United States
could soon be lost to computers, robots and other forms of technology.

#19 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown
commercially is in Hawaii.

#20 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.

#21 The state with the most millionaires per capita is Maryland.

#22 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12
percent of them said that they were “very happy”.


#23 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people.

#24 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies in
their homes whatsoever. Even fewer have fire extinguishers.

#25 There are three towns in the United States that have the name
“Santa Claus“.

#26 There is actually a town in Michigan called “Hell“. (I wonder how
far down the road from Detroit that is?)

#27 If you have no debt and also have 10 dollars in your wallet...you
are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans.

#28 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child
will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

And now the summary! Once upon a time we were the most loved and most
respected nation on the entire planet, but those days are gone. We have
wrecked our economy, we have lost our values and we have fumbled away our
future. But if you look close enough, you can still see many of the things
that once made this country a shining beacon to the rest of the world. This
email includes some weird facts, some fun facts, but also some very
troubling facts. If we are ever going to change course as a nation, we need
to come to grips with just how far we have fallen.

Good friends are like quilts - they age with you. And yet, they never lose
their warmth.

Take good care of them.

Re-read Number 27.

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