“Between 1980 and 2003, the amount Americans spent on prescription drugs quietly rose from $12 billion to $197 billion” http://bit.ly/bzgzIT
Over a tenth of the elements in the periodic table have been discovered since 1970. http://bit.ly/9M2VGk
In 1892 American Express purchased 2,400 copies of the popular novel Black Beauty as a gift to all of the company’s stablemen.
If Facebook was a country it’s population would make it the third biggest nation in the world. http://bit.ly/bZQ46U
“The average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.” http://bit.ly/8QOjEh
“1/4 of America’s engineering and tech firms founded between 95 & 05 had an immigrant founder.” http://bit.ly/59RwUs
Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time. http://bit.ly/1Ccv1j
“300 million [golf] balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year.” http://bit.ly/3yXjsq
10 percent of electricity in the US comes from “dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones.” http://bit.ly/WFO6Q
“LEGO is the world’s No. 1 tire manufacturer.” They produce 306 million tiny tires a year. http://bit.ly/3IMnnA
