do you still think it's a good place to live?
info task by ...and you will know us by the trail of dead @ 4/11/2007• 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
• 70% of the poor people in the world are female.
• Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
• An average American child watches approximately 28 hours of television in one week.
• Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
• By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
• Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
• Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death.
• In a day 34,000 children die every day from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.
• It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
• On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving.
• People in low-income homes spend 50% more time playing video games than people in high-income homes.
• Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured.
• The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes.
• The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
• The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The world's 350+ billionaires have more assets than the combined assets of the bottom 45% of the world's population.
