Thursday, June 29, 2017

United States of America

OMG! Facts about USA

  • Most power full country in the world
  • Dialing code +1
  • Every hour, at least 1 person is killed by a drunk driver in the USA
  • 100 acres of pizza are served in the US every day


  • If you have US$10 in your pocket, you are wealthier than 25% of Americans
  • 7% of Americans claim they never bathe
  • One American consumes as many resources as 32 Kenyans
  • Every second Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate


  • America’s first slave owner was a black man
  • 1 in 3 Americans is obese
  • There are at least 97 people called “LOL” in the US


  • The average US worker stays at each of its jobs for 4.4 years
  •  8 billion chickens are consumed in the US each year
  • 40% of births in the USA come from unmarried women
  • Apple has more operating cash than the US treasury
  • Every day, nearly 4000 teens in the US smoke their first cigarette while 1000 start smoking on a daily basis
  • Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the US every year
  • 20 million Americans live in mobile homes
  • College textbooks prices in the US have risen faster than health-care, housing, and inflation
  • After Christianity, the largest religious affiliation in the US is Judaism
  • There are more single people than married people in the US nowadays
  • The four corners monument is the only point in the US shared by four states
  • There are more Face book users from the US than US citizens that voted in the last election
  • The US has no official language
  • 63% of US prison inmates can’t read
  • There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the US
  • 60000 plastic bags are being used in the US every 5 seconds
  • The banana is the most popular fruit in the USA


  • The US government spends US$1.8 billion per year printing documents
  • Valentine’s Day is also National condom day in the USA


  •  Almost half the world’s credit card frauds happen in the USA
  • There are more TVs in the U.S. than people in the U.K
  • 1 in 25 U.S. teenagers has attempted suicide
  • The launch code for all U.S. minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code. Code is 00000000.
  • The Afghan war is the longest war in U.S. history
  • More U.S. soldiers committed suicide than died in combat in 2012
  • Hackers cost the U.S. economy up to 500000 jobs each year
  • There are 100 divorces every hour in the U.S.
  • 50% is the lifetime risk of developing cancer for a man in the U.S.
  • There are 2 pets for every 3 people in the U.S.
  • An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of foods in a lifetime
  • 4% of women in the USA are pregnant right now
  • The first Friday of June is National Donuts Day in the U.S.


  • 30% of businesses in the U.S. are owned by women
  • GPS is owned and controlled by the U.S. Government. It can be switched off at any time
  • In the USA more than 1.2 million people have HIV
  • By law, only dead people can appear on U.S. currency


  • Empty Homes outnumber the homeless 6 to 1 in the USA
  • In 2015, the marijuana market in the U.S. was bigger than craft beer, wine and organic food
  • The U.S. is the largest exporter of sperm
  • Just 0.21% of the U.S. total population live in its capital city, it is the lowest percentage in the world







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