Unbelievable facts about America, USA

Unbelievable facts about America, USA. I have conjured up quite a few intersting facts about USA‎ , enjoy and if anymore need to be added please email me.
On average, Americans consume 350 slices of pizza per second.

Georgia is the only U.S. state named after a king – England’s King George II.

The state of Wyoming is named after the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The MOST densely populated state in the U.S. is New Jersey with an average of 1,143.9 people per square mile.

The LEAST densely populated state in the U.S. is Alaska with an average of 1.1 people per square mile.

Alaska has 33,904 miles of coastline.

Kaskaskia, Illinois, Illinois’ first state capital, is WEST of the Mississippi River. The rest of Illinois lies EAST of the Mississippi River.

The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey.

You can snow ski and snowboard in Hawaii.

Approximately 37% or almost 4 out of 10 people in the U.S. live within 100 miles of the coast.

The richest 1% of the people in the U.S. earn 21.2% of the total overall income of all wage earners.

Los Alamos, NM has the highest percentage of millionaires in the U.S. (9.7% of its residents are millionaires)

New Hampshire has the highest per capita consumption of spirits – 3.6 gallons per person annually, on average.

North Dakota has the highest per capita consumption of beer.

Residents of the District of Columbia have the highest per capita consumption of wine.

West Virginia has the LOWEST per capita consumption of wine.

Utah, ‘Mormon Country,’ has the LOWEST per capita consumption of both spirits and beer.

The United States is the third most populous country but its 300,000,000+ residents represent slightly less than 5% of the world’s 6.35 billion people.

Americans spend an average 38 hours a year sitting in traffic that wastes an estimated 26 gallons of gasoline per person – Los Angeles metropolitan drivers waste the most gas sitting in traffic for 78 hours per year.

Americans, on average, spend 18% of their income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.

The wife is the sole wage earner in 4% of those married couples with children.

80% of all the wine consumed in the U.S. is consumed by 11% of those people who drink alcoholic beverages.

All 50 states in the USA have wineries.

California is largest wine producer in the USA.

Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States by Act of Congress in 1964.

Chicago, Illinois has the most bars per capita of any major city.

Since 2006 in the USA, there have been and continue to be five motor vehicle fatalities every hour, on average.

According to a study by the nation’s largest auto insurer, the greatest percentage of accidents in the USA occur between 3 PM and 6 PM on Fridays.

One-third (33%) of all teenagers will have an automobile accident within one year of obtaining their driver’s license.

According to a Paul Harvey broadcast and various web sources, a study of 40 groups/occupations showed that the WORST drivers are students (1), followed by medical doctors (2), then lawyers (3), architects (4) and real estate agents (5).

The BEST drivers in this study were homemakers (5), politicians (4), pilots (3), firemen (2) and the best drivers FARMERS (1).

Walmart is the second largest employer is the U.S.

Annually, more steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than is used in the manufacture of automobiles.

80% of all the lead used in the USA is contained in car batteries

21% of all American households own FIVE pets or more (60% of households own at least one pet.)

American women, on average, spend 55 minutes a day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.

The average American has 9 credit cards (bank, store, gas, etc.)

Out of every $100 the average American spends, $40 is charged to credit cards. (Probably a lot more than $40 in the last 6 months)

1 in every 100 American ADULTS is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female).

1 in every 6 homeowners in the USA is now ‘upside down’ in their homes, i.e., they owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.

As of October 2008, the average debt of American families is $79,083.

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