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One in three restaurants in the U.S. are owned by women.
More than 8 in 10 adults in the United States took pain pills in the last 6 months. The number one reason was headaches, the largest age group was 55-64. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life'. In 1995, credit card companies offered Americans an opportunity to collectively sign up credit cards 2.7 billion times. About 1.4 percent of the offers were accepted. The Chinese tendency to give children commonly used or popular names can make it difficult to find the right person. There are over 4600 people with the name Zhang Li in Beijing. The Catholic Herald, published in Great Britain, warms about the dangers of drinking holy water from religious shrines. While it may have curative powers in a religious sense, it seems that it also is a breeding ground for germs. Pizzas in Japan are smaller than in the United States and can have different toppings. Corn and tuna pizzas are popular. Sales of Porches decreased in the U.S. from 30,000 in 1986, to 3,000 in 1993. Two flavors of Cheetos are sold in China --- savory American cream and Japanese steak. Ted Turner, head of Turner Broadcasting, was expelled from Brown University for setting fire to his fraternity's float. A church in Spain now allows worshippers to make their donations through a credit card terminal instead of the traditional collection box. Drinking alcoholic beverages has decreased in the United States. In 1996, 55% of American adults said they had a drink in the last 6 months. In 1986, it was 67 percent. African Americans have a much stronger preference for going to museums, concerts or the theater than Anglos --- 56% list these as preferred activities compared to 39% for Anglos. Based on a survey of over 1000 Americans, ages 32 to 50, 87% feel successful and 73% obtain satisfaction from their work. Disneyland has a person whose position is Director of Synergy. Diebold Inc., a company formed to make safes in 1859, now sells over a half-billion dollars a year of ATMs. When Phillip Morris reduced the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 40 cents per pack, in 1993, the company's stock experienced a one-day loss in valuation of $13.4 billion. One in seven workers in Boston walks to work. The average price of a ticket to a Broadway show is $45.97. Modern Maturity has the largest paid circulation of any magazine in the US with over 20 million copies per issue. The Disney Channel Magazine has the largest unpaid circulation. Approximately one-third of all of the candy bars consumed in the US areeaten by people aged 50 or older. Dunkin' Donuts sells 3,055 donuts every minute. Over 19 million people in the United States belong to health clubs last year, paying more than 6 billion dollars in dues. Almost 1.3 million never showed up once. The first television broadcast of a major league baseball game was between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers on August 26, 1939. Customers who bought the first Kodak cameras had to mail them back to Rochester, New York for reloading. The Chinese have been wearing sunglasses for over 14 centuries. Young giraffes can grow as much as one-half inch per hour. You can use pine cones to forecast the weather --- the scales will close when rain is on the way. There are seven McDonald restaurants in Israel. Only the one in Jerusalem is kosher. The first recording of the human voice was be Thomas Edison in 1877. It was 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.' When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell. When walking on the moon, astronaut Alan Sheppard hit a golf ball that went 2,400 feet, nearly one-half a mile. Half of McDonlad's 50 most profitable outlets are in Hong Kong. Everyday, 0.5 percent of the world's population visits a McDonalds. John Quincy Adams regularly morning routine included a nude swim in the Potomac. When the great lakes were formed they were covered with a layer of ice more than two miles thick. Today they are becoming shallower as the earth's crust springs back toward its original shape like the surface of a rubber ball. U.S. households do 35 billion loads of laundry annually. The Tales of Peter Rabbit is the best selling children's book of all time. There is a town called Bummerville, Ca, and another called Nameless, TN. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby. Approximately 98 percent of software in China is pirated; about 35 percent in the United States. In-line skates were invented by a Dutch inventor in the early 1700's, when he attached spools to his shoes. Conventional roller skates, with 2 pairs of rollers, were invented in 1863. Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream contributes 7.5 percent of pre-tax profits to charity. Swiss women reject time-saving ads for washing dishes and cleaning floors because they consider these tasks as an integral part of their role as homemakers. For many of us who went to school in the U.S., the way we remembered the colors of the rainbow was through the character Roy G. Biv --- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. In England, the mnemonics is Richard of York gave battle in vain. In part, as a function of the $120 million contract to Shaquille O'Neal, the lowest price ticket to a L. A. Lakers game will rise from $9.50 to $21. In 1993, Americans spent $234 billion on items that were directly marketed through the mail. Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry. The term 'cuckold' comes from the bird 'cuckoo' which lays eggs in other birds' nests. The young, when hatched, are bigger than their nest mates and toss them out of the nest. Nobel laureate physicist P.A.M. Dirac was married to the sister of Nobel Laureate physicist Eugene Wigner. Titanium is the most corrosion resistant material suitable for boat building. It is stronger than steel and weighs only half as much. An Italian physician promotes having regular sex with the same partner because it is good for indigestion. He also states that having casual sex with many partners can cause indigestion. According to Dr. David Gems, a British geneticist, sex-craved male mice, who spend 5 to 11 hours per day pursuing female mice, could live years longer if they abstained. More than half the American men surveyed in a recent poll admit to having sex with women they disliked. With parents consent, a girl can get married in New Hampshire at 13 years old The world population will DOUBLE every 41 years at our current ratio of births to deaths. n the horse world the mare decides when and where the herd will go while the stallion follows. The state of California has issued 6 drivers licenses to Jesus Christ. There are 7,500 Druids in Great Britain. According to Harper's Index, 550 Harvard law students were required to read 'Juice: The O. J. Simpson Tragedy.' Suicide rates are generally higher in northerly latitudes than in southerly latitudes. John Quincy Adams regularly morning routine included a nude swim in the Potomac. San Diego was the L. Frank Baum's inspiration for the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. While 92 percent of the American population consider themselves to be middle class, less than 40 percent actually are. More than 100 women make their livings by impersonating Marilyn Monroe. Over half of the cabinet ministers in Taiwan have degrees from American universities. A garter snake can give birth to 85 babies. The United States is the fourth largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. The are 400 Spanish-language radio stations in the U.S. Tortilla sales in the United states have surpassed pita bread, English muffins, and bagels. Over 1.5 millions regularly watch television in the nude. The Braille version of Gone With the Wind is over 30 volumes. Approximately 35 percent of Americans favor putting ads on a dollar bill if it will help lower the deficit. The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television each day. The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet. If you don't believe the U.S. has a class system, more than two-thirds of CEO's came from upper class or upper-middle class families. While British prefer avocado bathrooms, the French prefer blue colored bathrooms. Boston's Blue Laws were written on blue paper. Green cards, issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, are actually white. When it was on television, 1 in 3 Americans watched Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The odds of having twins are 1 in 90, quintuplets are 1 in 85 million. One in eight women and one in seven men will have an affair within the first two years of marriage. John Stuart Mill was estimated to have an IQ of 190. The average is 100, above 139 is considered genius. Austin, Texas, has the highest percentage of college graduates, 31 percent. Newark, New Jersey the lowest, 6 percent Approximately 30% of men and women meet dates through friends Sweden has the lowest birth rate in the world, 1 in 100. Malawi, in Africa, has the highest, 5.3 in 100. Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest. The Sitka spruce is Britain's most commonly planted tree. The flag of the U.K. is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship. Soccer legend Pele's real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture In every deck of cards the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King. Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two provinces which do not allow personlaized license plates. The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. Mickey Mouse's ears are always turned to the front, no matter which direction his head is pointing. The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope. Unless the bear lives in the southern hemishpere. Rita Hayworth's real name was Margarita Cansino. The country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household is Botswana. Shannon Hoon, the now-dead lead singer of the group Blind Melon was a back-up singer for Gun's N'Roses on their Use Your Illusion 1 CD. Hippopotamuses do eighty percent of their vocalization under water. The six most hazardous occupations in America are firefighter, race-car driver, astronaut, football player, police officer, and fisherman. Only 1 in 50 people in the U.S. do not watch television.
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