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

The 280,000 financial sector workers collect more than half of all the wages paid in Manhattan, although they hold less than 1 in 6 of Manhattan jobs.

Counting only domain name sites with content, Netcraft has tracked the growth of the internet since 1995 and says of the 100m, around 48 million are active sites that are updated regularly. When it began observing sites through the domain name system in 1995, there were 18,000 web sites in existence.

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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.

The earth's surface area is 197,000,000 square miles.

Multiply those and you get 1,280,500,000,000,000,000 (1 quintrillion or 1 billion billion) insects. That's a lot of bugs.

Mr Tomlinson sent this first email back in 1971 -- he invented the software that allowed messages to be sent between computers. He even started the convention of using the "@" sign in email addresses (his email was "tomlinson@bbn-tenexa").

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.

In Japan, the average number of eggs eaten/person/year is 347. The US makes the list with 238 per person per year.

The elephant bird, extinct within the last 1,000 years, laid an egg that was seven times larger than an ostrich egg. These eggs weighed about 12kg apiece, were 30 cm long and could hold up to 8.5L of liquid or the equivalent of 12,000 hummingbird eggs -- sure makes one hell of an omelet...

The same source provided a breakout of food service (eat-in vs. drive thru, etc.) in a fact from last May.