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发帖数: 38600 | 1 33 Strange Facts About America That Most Americans Would Be Shocked To Learn
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/33-strange-facts-ab
#1 The amount of cement that China used from 2011 to 2013 was greater than
the total amount of cement that the United States used during the entire
20th century.
#2 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in
the state is a football coach.
#3 It costs the U.S. government 1.8 cents to mint a penny and 9.4 cents to
mint a nickel.
#4 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out
of their paychecks into savings.
#5 In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people. During that
same year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12
people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all.
#6 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island is
. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.
#7 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put
together.
#8 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is
actually larger than the entire state of Delaware.
#9 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all U.S.
children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that number
has skyrocketed to 33 percent.
#10 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to
unmarried parents. Today, that number is over 40 percent.
#11 The poverty rate for households that are led by a married couple is 6.8
percent. For households that are led by a female single parent, the poverty
rate is 37.1 percent.
#12 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were
awarded that year in the United States.
#13 According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in the U.S. are obese at
this point.
#14 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds
of food each year.
#15 Right now, more than 200 million people around the planet are officially
considered to be unemployed. Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent of the
garbage that goes into our landfills is food.
#16 There is a city in Bangladesh called Dhaka where workers are paid just
one dollar for every 1,000 bricks that they carry. Meanwhile, the “
inactivity rate” for men in their prime working years in the United States
is hovering near record high levels.
#17 According to one recent survey, 81 percent of Russians now have a
negative view of the United States. That is much higher than at the end of
the Cold War era.
#18 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
#19 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no
grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
#20 One recent survey discovered that “a steady job” is the number one
thing that American women are looking for in a husband, and another survey
discovered that 75 percent of women would have a serious problem dating an
unemployed man.
#21 According to a study conducted by economist Carl Benedikt Frey and
engineer Michael Osborne, 47 percent of the jobs in the United States could
soon be lost to computers, robots and other forms of technology.
#22 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially
is in Hawaii.
#23 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.
#24 The state with the most millionaires per capita is Maryland.
#25 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they
get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
#26 86 percent of men include “having children” in their definition of
success. For women, that number is only 73 percent.
#27 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of
them said that they were “very happy”.
#28 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people. Japan
only has 593 for every 1,000 people, and Germany only has 540 for every 1,
000 people.
#29 The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an electronic
device.
#30 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies in their
homes whatsoever.
#31 There are three towns in the United States that have the name “Santa
Claus“.
#32 There is actually a town in Michigan called “Hell“.
#33 There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in your body. If they were
stretched out in a single line, they could go around the planet more than
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发帖数: 6568 | 2 14 不可能对吧。要是一个超市一天才平均扔掉不到9磅食物，那可真是够节俭的 |
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