#1 The highest point in the state of Florida is only
345 feet (115 yards) above sea level.
#2 Today,
66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight.
#5 Approximately
48 percent of all Americans are currently either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.
#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states
put together.
#7 In the UK, an average of about $3,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year. In the United States, an average of
about $8,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.
#8 Montana has
three times as many cows as it does people.
#10 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially
is in Hawaii.
#11 The United States has
845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people. Japan only has 593 for every 1,000 people and Germany only has 540 for every 1,000 people.
#12 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there
since 1922.
#14 Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born
in a hospital.
#15 In the middle of the last century, the United States was
#1 in the world in GDP per capita. Today, the United States is
#13 in GDP per capita.
#16 Today, approximately
25 million American adults are living with their parents.
#17 One survey found that
25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit pornography websites
while they are at work.
#18 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than
49,000 times larger than it was back in 1985.
#20 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about
3,000 square miles large. It is actually bigger than the entire state of Delaware.
#23 The original name of the city of Atlanta was "
Terminus".
#25 The median price of a home in the city of Detroit is now
about $6000.
#27 According to author Paul Osterman, about
20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
#29 There are three towns in the United States that have the name "
Santa Claus".
#30 There are
313 million people living in the United States. 46 million of them are on food stamps.
#32 In 1940, 68.0% of all women in the 20 to 34 year old age group in the United States were married. In 2010,
only 39.2% of women in that age group were married.
#33 The United States has a teen pregnancy rate of
22 percent - the highest in the world. New Zealand is number two at 14 percent.
#34 According to the CDC, there are
19 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States every single year.
#35 The United States has the
highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin. Puerto Rico is number two. Perhaps Puerto Rico really would fit in as the 51st state.
#36 More people have been diagnosed with
mental disorders in the United States than in any other nation on earth.
#37 The United States has more government debt
per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain.
#38 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit
for about 15 days.
#40 It took from the founding of the nation until 1981 for the U.S. national debt to cross the one trillion dollar mark. Today, our national debt is well over 15 trillion dollars and we add more than a trillion dollars to our debt
every single year.
