Friday, November 25, 2011

Facts About America People Living & Trivia

If you're an American, the odds are 1 out of 40 (2.46%) that you're currently in the U.S. criminal justice system (incarcerated, on parole, or on probation

The odds are 1 out of 3 (33%) that (if you have a baby this year in America) it will be delivered by Caesarean Section

The odds are 73 out of 100 (73%) that you (as an American) favor the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world

The odds are 1 out of 4,800 (.021%) that if you're a pregnant American woman, you will die in childbirth

The odds are 1 out of 25 (4%) that you (as an American adult) have never had sex


The odds are almost 2 out of 3 (63%) that you're rather be poor and thin than rich and fat (if you're an American woman)

The odds are 1 out of 5,898 (.01695%) that an American got sick or died in 2000-2004 from something they ate

The odds are 1 out of 32 (3.125%) that a person in America is currently being punished for a crime (behind bars, on probation, or on parole

The odds are 1 out of 825 (.1212%) that an American lives in a household that earns more than $2 million each year


The odds are 1 out of 150 (.66%) that a person in America is in jail & the odds are 1 out of 290 (.35%) that a person in America is an illegal alien

An estimated 12 to 14 million Americans (about one in 12 adults) have a drinking problem, but only 8 million of these are alcoholics
The average American spends more time on Facebook than Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined
Harry Aleman made American legal history as the first person tried again after an acquittal on murder -- the judge had been bought off in his first trial

$1 trillion would buy 5,574,136 typical American homes, 140 billion hours of labor, a year's salary for 14.7 million teachers, 1.33 trillion chocolate bars or 1,333 celebrity divorce settlements

North America's heaviest hailstone weighed 1-pound, 15-ounce hailstone and fell in Vivian, S.D., on July 23, 2010

In 1992, 5,840 Americans checked into emergency rooms with 'pillow-related injuries
Less than one-third of the meals eaten in America are served to the whole family at once
If all the pizza slices Americans eat in one day came from one giant pizza it would cover more than 11 football fields

America's first space station was Skylab, which was longer than a 12-story building and contained almost 12,000 cubic feet of living space
Held every year on the island of Alcatraz since 1975, “Unthanksgiving Day” commemorates the survival of Native Americans following the arrival and settlement of Europeans in the Americas