This is an average from 2002-2004 -- a number that has been steadily increasing. The report, based on CDC data, also finds that MS, AL, WV, LA, and TN have the highest percentage of obese adults.

"Obesity" is defined by having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or more. Find out your BMI now!

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

On August 8, 2005, President Geroge W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March, and end the first Sunday of November.

Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii or in most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.

In the US, that number is only 4%.

On a sidenote, Florida, Montana, and a few New England states seem to have more of this group of people.

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)!

It was probably the first time that any non-Anglo name was among the 10 most common in the nation.

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.

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).

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

According to VH1, this is enough money to buy every single house in Deleware!

Buffett still lives in the same house he bought in his home town of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1957.

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.

Over the same period, campus-based financial aid rose 135%.

Births among single mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s. Teen mothers were not responsible for the increase.

Looks like Nevada and Alaska are the only places where men really outnumber women.

Other interesting news: 1 out of 4 Americans can't vote (they're under 18). And there are almost 7 million completely vacant housing units in the US.

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.

That was up from 22% in 2000!

Today, CEO compensation can be 500 times as much as his or her employees ($10,000,000 vs. $20,000)!

This is half of their leisure time, and more than on any single activity save work and sleep.

And another interesting fact about the US population and Taco Bell.

In the United States, the day now simply celebrates motherhood and thanking mothers.

That's the first time that's happened since the Great Depression.

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)!

And then there's the August fact about a 14% increase in prices this past year.

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.

31% of the credit card industry's profits came in the form of late-payment fees, over-limit fees, etc.

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.

Kinda lonely...

46% of the children of Wal-Mart's 1.33 million United States employees were uninsured or on Medicaid.

ABC News reports that 61% of Americans don’t know the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Our economy also uses more resources than any other nation and generates one quarter of the greenhouse gases contributing to global warming.

Nope, it's Las Vegas. While the nation holds a growth rate of 13%, Vegas checked in at a whopping 84%. (Sidenote: With only about 4 inches of rain a year, it's likely that the city will face major water issues in the years to come.)

The increase is partly due to the "echo" of the Baby Boom (the surge in births following the second World War), where those babies born after 1945 grew up and had kids of their own.

63% of Americans have cell phones.

The US Treasury Department appropriates the money and returns it to circulation.

According to research at McMaster University in Canada, people trust people who look like them. In addition, the participants of this experiment described the similar faces as sexually unattractive.

If you pronounce this word "for-tay" then perhaps the English language is less of your forte than you would like to admit.

The word forte, coming from French fort, should properly be pronounced with one syllable, like the English word fort. But you're certainly not alone in your error; common usage prefers the two-syllable pronunciation, (fôr' te). In a recent survey a strong majority of the Usage Panel, 74 percent, preferred the two-syllable pronunciation. The result is a delicate situation; speakers who are aware of the origin of the word may wish to continue to pronounce it as one syllable but risk sounding incorrect to the less articulate.

How's that for motivation?

The 'art' cost $21 million to create, and used 5,290 tons of steel, about two-thirds the amount used to make Paris' Eiffel Tower. It also used 1 million square feet of vinyl. The materials will be recycled.

The "Gates" close on Monday, February 28th.

24% of Americans 25 years or older have a college degree.

Houston is the the fattest city in the U.S (for the fourth time in the past 5 years).

They provide relief for more than 70,000 disasters every year with their 1 million volunteers and 36,000 employees!

I believe this means that most working women are contributing as much or more than their husbands in terms of household income.

At the same time, although women account for about half of managerial and professional positions, they account for only 8% of executive vice presidents and above at Fortune 500 companies.

Every business day, 6.7 million people commute into Manhattan, via only 12 bridges and tunnels. 85% of the residents use public transportation, compared with only 5.3% for the rest of the US.

The most common first name in the world is Muhammad.

The most common last name is Chan.

The number of Americans that are millionaires is up 14%.

Now, 1 out of every 128 Americans is a millionaire.

Seattle - 48.8%
Raleigh - 48%
San Francisco - 47.8%
Washington, DC - 42.5%