Some Interesting Factoids

Thirty percent of American households have a dog.
Twenty-two percent have a cat.
Eight Percent have some other kind of pet.
Most people in the world live near a large body of water, an ocean, a river, or a lake.
More than half of all Americans move to Florida, California, Arizona, and Texas.
English is the official language of 87 countries of the world.
My interest is in the future because I am to spend the rest of my life there.
Alcohol slows the body's ability to burn fat. That's why beer drinkers develop a large stomach.
Children who live with smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer later in life than children of non-smoking parents.
In 1776 the average person in North America could expect to live 35 years.
He that travels much knows much.
In 1989, 2,066,510 people traveled between New York and San Francisco by airplane.
When men and women agree, it is only in the conclusion; their reasons are always different.
About 25% of all American married women are older than their husbands.
Most Americans marry between the ages of 25 and 29.
People who live together before marriage are 33% more likely to get a divorce
Telephone books in the United States have a lot of useful information in them:
What to do in an emergency, community services and public transportation, information about shopping, recreation.
The average American gets 2.5 messages on his or her message machine per day.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.
Animals are good at predicting the weather. Frogs croak when the air pressure falls.
Before rain, ants move to higher ground and sheep's wool curls.
Lightening strikes somewhere on earth about 6,000 times a minute
It is safer to be in a car during a thunderstorm than a house. If lightening strikes a car it goes through the tires to the ground.
The United States, with Bermuda, has the highest divorce rates, about twice as high as in other industrial countries.