Americans spent $16B on bottled water last year- that's more than was spent on movie tickets or iPods!
24% of the bottled water purchased in America is 're-purified' tap water (water clean enough to drink in the first place) from Coke (Dasani) and Pepsi (Aquafina)!
Women make only 80% of the salaries their male peers do 1 year after college!
10 years after college, women earn only 69% of what men earn, in spite of the fact that women have slightly higher grade point averages than men in every major, including science and math -- all according to the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.
Black and Asian women earn slightly more than similarly educated white women.
This is according to figures from the Census Bureau's annual look at educational achievement in America. Considering only college-educated women, an Asian makes $43,700 on average, a Black woman makes $41,100 and a white woman makes $37,800.
At $66,390, white men with four-year degrees top the list (Jason).
More American women are living without a husband than with one.
In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000. In addition, married couples are also a minority in the US, according to an old fact
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December 15, 2006
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Americans will devote nearly half of their time in 2007 to consuming media -- including TV, the Web, radio and printed materials, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The report found that Americans next year will log 3,518 hours using media -- equivalent to 146 days, or five months, and that total will include 1,555 hours in front of the TV.
At private, nonprofit four-year colleges, average tuition rose 81% from 1993 to 2004 , more than double the inflation rate, according to the College Board.
Over the same period, campus-based financial aid rose 135%.
Each year in Los Angeles people spend 93 hours sitting in traffic.
That's almost 4 whole days every year just sitting in traffic! Other cities in the top five are San Francisco (72), DC (69), and Atlanta (67), & Houston (63).
This is from the Texas Transportation Institute which recently released its 2005 Mobility Study. Each year the study looks at, among other things, how much time people spend in traffic.
The American Community Survey, released this month by the Census Bureau, found that 49.7% of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples — with and without children. Five years ago, 52% of US households were of married couples.
In the United States, Mother's Day was originally conceived by social activist Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War with a call to unite women against war. She wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 as part of the feminist belief of women's power to shape society.
In the United States, the day now simply celebrates motherhood and thanking mothers.
According to the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, Americans spent more than they earned in 2005 -- a negative savings rate of 0.5% for the year.
That's the first time that's happened since the Great Depression.
Children's TV programming is more violent than mainstream adult programming.
According to the Parents Television Council, children's programming contained an average of 6.3 instances of violence per hour, compared with 4.71 such incidents during prime-time programming -- these figures even exclude "cartoony" violence (when an anvil falls on Wile E. Coyote during a Looney Tunes cartoon)!
There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world. This includes just over a billion Catholics, about 350 million Protestants, and the Orthodox and Anglican faiths.
Islam is the world's second-largest religion, with roughly 1.3 billion followers -- including 940 million Sunnis and 170 million Shiites, as well as those belonging to other Muslim faiths like Sufism. Hindus are the third largest group at just under a billion.
The average American family has $8,100 of total credit card debt. If they paid only the minimum amount due each month, this would take approximately 30 years to pay off.
31% of the credit card industry's profits came in the form of late-payment fees, over-limit fees, etc.
In a discussion of why some technological innovations succeed while others fail, many researchers adhere to Rogers' (1983) "Ideal Adopter Categories," which group individuals according to how and when they adopt changes.
The first category, innovators, comprises only 2.5% of society, and they are the people who create new ideas and new products. The other categories are early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%) and laggards (16%). Laggards never fully adopt a change.
Cognitive scientists make a distinction between short-term, or working memory, and long-term, or secondary memory. Research suggests that generally only seven items can be stored for about a minute in short-term memory, whereas long-term memory is limitless.
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