WEIGHT LOSS HACKS

- Drink two cups of water before meals can make you lose an average of four and a half more pounds in twelve weeks.

- Eating a small amount of chocolate in the morning can actually help your body burn calories and lose weight throughout the day.

- A cup of coffee before a workout speeds up the fat burning process.

- Skipping meals can cause your body to go into a fat storing starvation mode, making it harder to burn calories.

- The scent of a banana contains a compound that may actually help you lose weight.

- Eating celery is technically exercise. When you ear celery, you burn more calories digesting it than you consume.

- Don't eat anything four hours before you go to bed. It really makes a huge difference.

- Eating breakfast in the morning makes it ten times easier to burn calories throughout the day.

- If you want good running form, try to run as quietly as possible. You'll be able to run faster and longer.

- Drinking five cups of green tea in a day can help you lose weight around your belly.

- Always exercise on Monday. This sets the psychological pattern for the rest of the week.

- Need some motivation to go to the gym? GymPact is an app that will pay you for working out and punishes you for missing out on days.

- If you're going for a run, the jog.fm will select a music playlist for you based on your pace.

- Moderate alcohol drinkers gain less weight over time than people who don't drink at all.

- You can burn up to 180 calories while watching a horror movie.

- Eating more spicy food tricks your taste buds into being more satisfied with smaller amounts of food.

- Trying to eat less? Use a smaller plate. It tricks your mind into thinking there's more food, and also limits what you can pile onto your plate.

- Working out before bed makes your muscles burn more calories throughout your sleep cycle.

- The faster you eat, the more weight you gain. A study showed that a fast eater gained more than four pounds over eight years, while a slow eater gained only one and a half pounds.

- Doing 7,000 jumping jacks burns enough calories to lose about one pound. Spread that over a week and you'll lose an extra pound every week.

- To lose 1 pound of fat, you must run for over 3 hours. Run for 27 minutes a day, lose a pound a week.

- Make your playlists as long as you plan to exercise. This will make you focus more on your workout and keep you from constantly looking at the clock.

- The calories in one Big Mac are equivalent to walking for 100 minutes.

- Fifteen straight minutes of laughter has the same Health & Fitness benefits as 30 minutes on sit-ups.

- Lemon juice with a pinch of salt (warm) every morning lowers cholesterol levels and brings down your weight.

- Thinking actually burns calories!

- Three passionate kisses a day can double your metabolic rate and can help you lose up to a pound.

- The less you eat sweets, the less you crave them.

FACTS ABOUT PAKISTAN 5

- 27 Pakistani scientists are working at CERN made a visible contribution to the research that led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

- Pakistan is one of the biggest exporters of surgical instruments all around the world.

- Ali Moeen Nawazish is a Pakistani academic, notable for making the second world record by getting 22 A grades in A Levels at the age of 18.

- Pakistan has the 6th largest population in the world.

- Islamabad is declared world’s second most beautiful Capital.

- There’s one doctor for every 1,234 people in Pakistan.

- Pakistan is the world’s 3rd largest producer of chickpea.

- Also called “The Great Wall of Sindh”, Ranikot Fort is one of the world’s largest forts with a length of 31 km and a circumference of 26 km.

- Pakistan treasures one of the rare species of dolphin know as ‘Blink Dolphin’ in waters of Indus River, one of the longest rivers in the world.

- Pakistani Qawwali singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, received many awards around the globe such as The “Legends” award at the UK Asian Music Awards (2005).

- Pakistan has an estimated 110 nuclear missiles.

- A football made from artificial leather PV-PVC and hand-sewn by staff at Ihsan Sports of Hajipura, Sialkot, Pakistan, had a diameter of 4 meters (13ft 1in) when measured on 30 June 2002.

- The world’s highest paved international road, The Karakoram Highway, is in Pakistan which is often called the eight wonder of the world.

- Located in Lahore City, “Lahore Railway Station” is the largest Railway Station in Pakistan.

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- Lahore is Pakistan’s largest producer of professionals in the field of science technology, IT, nanotechnology etc.

- The 10,000 years old Thar Desert located at border between Pakistan and India is the world’s largest sub-tropical desert and it was once a source of water for the Indus Valley Civilization.

- Pakistani armed forces have a man power of 642,000.

- Pakistan’s land covers some 796,095 km² (307,374 mi²) about the combined land area of France and UK.

- Pakistan has the sixth largest military force in the world.

- The highest railway station in Asia is “Kan Mehtarzai”, with a height of 7,404 feet. It is located in Balochistan, a province of Pakistan.

- Pakistan has the 4th largest broadband system in the world.

- The 4th President and the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the first Asian student to be elected to the student council at University of Southern California (USC).

- Lady Finger (Bhindi) is the National Vegetable of Pakistan.

- Biafo glacier is the world’s longest glacial system outside the polar regions and that too is in Pakistan.

- During the war of 1965, Squadron Leader Mehmud Alam held the world record of downing five Indian planes in less than a minute.

- The most wickets taken over a one day international cricket career is 440 by Pakistan’s Wasim Akram in 319 matches between 1985 and 2001.

- Sohail Abbas of Pakistan holds the record of highest number of goals in International Hockey.

- The official currency of Pakistan is the Pakistani Rupee.

- Pakistan provides the largest number of troops to serve the UN peacekeeping missions.

- Pakistan has the 7th largest pool of scientists and engineers around the globe.

- Pakistan’s national flower is Jasmine.

- There are about 97% Muslims, 1.8% Christians and 1.2% Hindus in Pakistan.

- The highest cliff (rock wall, mountain face) in the world, is Nanga Parbat’s Rupal Face (Himalayas, Pakistan), which rises approximately 4,600 metres, or 15,000 feet, above its base.

- The national language of Pakistan is Urdu. The official language is Urdu along with English. Other languages spoken include Saraiki, Punjabi, Pusto, Sindhi and Balochi.

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- 16,490 feet high Aansu Lake in Kaghan Valley, Pakistan is shaped like a tear.

- According to a poll organized by IEBA from 125 countries, Pakistanis have been ranked the second most intelligent people across the globe.

- Pakistan is the first Islamic country to attain nuclear power.

- The world’s largest deep sea port, Gawadar is in Pakistan.

- In a Cricket World Cup match in Cape Town, on the 22nd of February, 2003 Shoaib Akhtar, a Pakistani cricketer bowled a ball with a speed of 161.3 km/h.

- Pakistan is the home of world’s largest ever milk production plant. Nestle’s 2 million litres a day Punjab based mild processing facility will rise to over 3 million litres in coming years.

- Pakistan is the only Muslim country after Turkey to open Combat Jobs for women.

- Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) attracts students from Central Asia, Far East, Middle East and other parts of South Asia.

- The Lahore Zoo is the second oldest zoo in South Asia and it has been a source of amusement and recreation for families for more than 100 years.

- On the 16th of August, 1997 cake measuring 105 foot (32 meters) was made in Pakistan which held the record for “The World’s Tallest Cake” up till 2008.

- There are 6 major languages in Pakistan. But, over 60 minor languages are also spoken in different areas of Pakistan.

- About 184.623 billion tones of coal reserves are found in Sindh, a province of Pakistan.

- Haleji Lake located in Thatta District, Pakistan is Asia’s largest bird sanctuary.

- The national drink of Pakistan is Sugarcane juice, called “Roh” the juice is usually only sold by roadside vendors throughout the country.

- The most men’s squash world championship team titles won is six, by Pakistan, in 1977m 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, and 1993.

- The world’s largest flag measuring 340ft x 510ft i.e. 173,400 sq.ft was made by VIP FLAGS on 14th August 2004 National Stadium Karachi.

- A Pakistani boy named Zidane Hamid from Rawalpindi started giving lectures about Science, History, Religion and much more at the age of just 3.5.

- ISI, the main intelligence agency for Pakistan, has been ranked as the world’s best intelligence agency by the American Crime News.

- In Lahore on the 3rd of January 2009, Zafar Gill lifted 73 kilograms in gym weights attached to his by a clamp establishing a Guinness World Record.

- An unabridged, published Quran in Pakistan measures 1.7cm x 1.28cm x 72cm. The Quran is 571 pages, fine print Arabic put together by Dr. Muhammad Karim Beebani on October 15, 2004.

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- World’s highest Polo ground is in Pakistan where Shundur Polo festival is being organized.

- Pakistan’s national animal is Markhor.

- Since 1995, Pakistani doctor, Muhammad Mustansar has been collecting pacifiers as an educational movement against them. The collection now amounts to 1,994 pacifiers of different colors and shapes, each obtained from individual mothers.

- In 1988, Benazir Bhutto became the first woman to be elected as the head of a Muslim state (Pakistan).

- Pakistan is sixth largest country in production of dates.

- Pakistan holds four out of fourteen highest peaks in the world. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world.

- Wateen Telecom and Motorola together rolled out the largest and the first in the world WiMax 802.16e network nationwide in 22 cities of Pakistan.

- A baby is born in Pakistan every 7 seconds.

- Dr. Abdus Salam was responsible for sending about 500 physicists, mathematicians and scientists form Pakistan, for doctorates to the best institutions in UK and US.

- A kurta, large enough to be worn by a 175 foot tall person form fashion designer Deepak Perwani in Karachi has been given the certificate of being the world’s largest by Guinnes Book of World Records.

- Irtiza Haider, a Pakistani student of class 8 from Faisalabad (12 years old) has been crowned to be the world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He did it by answering 80 percent of the questions correctly in 2 hours, in order to pass the CCNA test.

- Khewra salt mine, the second largest salt mine in the world is in Pakistan.

- In 2013, Pakistan set a world record for the most saplings planted in a day, with an impressive 750,000 mangrove tree saplings.

- Allama Iqbal was awarded the Khan Bahadurddin F.S. Jalaluddin medal due to his outstanding Arabic skills.

- Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan is the largest earth filled dam in the world and is second largest by the structural volume.

- Mango is the national fruit of Pakistan.

- The largest flaming candle image took place at the Serena Hotel in Faisalabad, Pakistan when 48 people lit 8,154 candles to create the Sandoz logo on December 31, 2003.

- Pakistan ranks 26th in economies of the world.

- A Pakistani girl, Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa became a Microsoft Certified Professor in 2004 at the age of nine. She also received the President’s Award for Pride of Performance.

- Pakistan’s national bird is the Chakor partridge (Alectoris Chakor).

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- Pakistan’s national sport is field hockey. The country has won the Olympic gold medal 3 times and the Hockey World Cup 4 times.

- Sugar-free mango ‘Amol’ has been harvested in Mirpurkhas, Sindh(Pakistan).

- Pakistan has the second best performing stock exchange.

- The Floodlit Border between Pakistan and India can be seen from outer space.

- Fatima Jinnah is regarded as “Madr-i-Millat” (The Mother of the Nation).

- Faisal Mosque can accommodate 10,000 worshippers in it’s prayer hall, 24,000 in it’s porticoes, 40,000 in it’s courtyard and another 200,000 in it’s adjoining grounds.

- Pakistan is the world’s 4th largest producer of mangoes, rice and cotton.

- Pakistan has world’s largest irrigation system i.e. 3 times bigger than Russia’s canal system even though Pakistan is at least 10 times smaller than Russia.

- Changa Manga is one of the largest man-planned and man-grown forests in the world. It covers the area of approximately 12,000 acres.

- The largest tea bag was made by Lipton Yellow Label of Lever Brothers, Pakistan Ltd weighting 8.9kg.

- First PC virus was created by two Pakistani brothers. (Maybe not something to be very proud of, but it still might have required an impressive level of intellect to do so).

- 80% of the world’s hand-stitched footballs are made in Sialkot, Pakistan.

- Pakistan has the 7th largest copper reserves.

- Pakistan is the world’s fourth largest milk producer, and Asia’s second largest.

- The largest city in Pakistan is Karachi which is home to over 13 million people. It is the financial hub of the country and is a major seaport.

- Jahangir Khan has the most world championship squash titles. He was unbeaten in competitive play for five years. During that time he won 555 matches consecutively.

- Pakistan is world’s 9th superpower.

- 72% of Pakistan’s population is associated with agriculture as their main source of income.

- M.Murtaza of Pearl Shoes Lahore received the certificate issued by the Guinness Book of Records for making the world’s largest sandal.

- Dr. Abdus Salam – Nobel Prize winner (Physics 1979).

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- 74% of young Indians prefer an arranged marriage over a free-choice one, a 2013 survey found.

- Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.

- India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.

- During WW2, India produced the largest volunteer Army in world history: over 2.5 million men. At least 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.

- There are 2.5 million of Zero Rupee bank notes in India. They are "paid" in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes.

- The Bengal Tiger is the national animal of India.

- For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.

- The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.

- The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level.

- India has the most post offices in the world.

- Diamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.

- India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

- India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.

- Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

- The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

- The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college.

- Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

- In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton and a cottage cheese like substance are popular pizza toppings.

- In India, a 9-year-old girl was "married" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum.

- The largest elections of any country were those beginning on 24 December 1984 for the Indian Lok Sabha with 542 elective seats. The government of Rajiu Gandhi was returned in polls where 379,000,000 electors were eligible to vote. There were 480,000 polling stations for 5,301 candidates manned by 2.5 million staff.

- Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose chopped off for breaking the law.

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- India has Largest number of vegetarians in the world

- India is the world's second-largest English speaking country

- India recently overtook the European Union with production reaching over 132.4m tonnes in 2014.

- India was the first country to develop extraction and purifying techniques of sugar. Many visitors from abroad learnt the refining and cultivation of sugar from them.

- Shakuntla Devi was given this title after she demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds.

- After defeating Germany 8-1 in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Major Dhyan Chand, the wizard of hockey, was summoned by Hitler. He was promised German citizenship, a high post in the German military and the chance to play for the German national side. Dhyan Chand however declined the offer.

- Freddie Mercury, the legendary singer of the rock band 'Queen' was born a Parsi with the name Farrokh Bulsara while the famous Oscar winning Hollywood star Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji.

- India has the third largest Muslim population in the world.

- India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.

- 70% of all the world's spices come from India.

- India has more population than the entire Western Hemisphere of Earth.

- "Anal" is a language spoken in India and Burma by 23,000 people.

- India's "Go Air" airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to US$500,000 per year in fuel.

- Gleevec, a cancer drug that costs US$70,000 in the U.S. per year, cost just US$2,500 in India because it can't be patented there.

- In Canada, Mexico, India, Russia and Israel, bank notes have Braille-like markings on them for the blind.

- The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.

- Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.

- In 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient's left kidney during a three-hour surgery.

- In India, many brides use the "Bichiya": a wedding ring for the toe.

- There's a village in India that produces most bouncers and bodyguards of New Delhi's nightclubs.

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- India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.

- 100 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.

- India's Hindu calendar has 6 seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.

- It's illegal for foreigners to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.

- Breathing the air in Bombay, India is equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day.

- The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.

- Police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache.

- India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.

- India has more mobile phones than toilets.

- Children's Day is celebrated in India on November 14th, 9 months after Valentine's Day.

- India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.

- Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.

- It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man hours for completion of Bandra-Worli sea link and also weights as much as 50,000 African elephants. A true engineering and architectural marvel.

- At an altitude of 2,444 meters, the Chail Cricket Ground in Chail, Himachal Pradesh, is the highest in the world. It was built in 1893 and is a part of the Chail Military School.

- Shampoo was invented in India, not the commercial liquid ones but the method by use of herbs. The word 'shampoo' itself has been derived from the Sanskrit word champu, which means to massage.

- India has won all 5 men's Kabaddi World Cups held till now and have been undefeated throughout these tournaments. The Indian women's team has also won all Kabaddi World Cups held till date.

- In September 2009, India's ISRO Chandrayaan- 1 using its Moon Mineralogy Mapper detected water on the moon for the first time.

- The father of India's missile programme had visited Switzerland back in 2006. Upon his arrival, Switzerland declared May 26th as Science Day

- The first rocket was so light and small that it was transported on a bicycle to the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

- Elephants receive baths, massages and even food at the Punnathoor Cotta Elephant Yard Rejuvenation Centre in Kerala. Now that's a BIG step for the country. 

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- The average projected lifespan of those born in Hawaii in the year 2000 is 79.8 years (77.1 years if male; 82.5 if female), longer than the residents of any other state.

- Hawaii has lost more species and has more endangered species than any other state in the United States. Nearly all of the state’s native birds are in danger of becoming extinct.

- In 1790, the volcano Kilauea erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii, killing over 5,000 people and making it the most deadly volcanic eruption in the United States. Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

- Because their society was largely an oral rather than a written culture, ancient Hawaiians would learn values and history through trained storytellers. Because the stories were considered sacred, listeners were not allowed to move once a story began.

- At 3.2%, North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the United States.

- In 2012, North Dakota was the fastest-growing state in the United States. The growth was largely due to an oil boom in the Bakken fields in the western part of the state. The state became the 2nd-highest oil-producing state behind Texas. Despite its oil boom, agriculture or farming is still North Dakota’s top industry.

- The world’s largest hamburger was eaten in Rutland, North Dakota. It weighed 3,591 pounds and more than 8,000 people were invited to the meal.

- In 2012, North Dakota was ranked as the best-run state in the country.

- It’s illegal to go dancing in Fargo with a hat on. It is even illegal to wear a hat at a party where other people are dancing. It is also illegal in North Dakota to take a nap with your shoes on. After 11 pm, it is illegal to set off fireworks at Devil’s Lake in North Dakota.

- The smallest city in North Dakota is Maza, with a population of 5 people. North Dakota does not have towns or villages. Each place is officially a city, no matter how small it is.

- North Dakota is the least-visited state in America.

- Lying just under the surface of western North Dakota is about 25 billion tons of lignite, enough to supply the region’s coal needs for over 800 years.

- In 2008, Fargo, North Dakota, hosted the largest pancake feed in the world.

- By 2000, 99.5% of North Dakota’s original grassland had been turned into farms and ranches.

- North Dakota holds the Guinness World Record for the most snow angels made simultaneously in one place. On February 17, 2007, 8,962 people made snow angels at the state capitol grounds. They beat the earlier record of 3,784 set at Michigan Technological University the previous year.

- North Dakota farmland would cover over 12 million city blocks. Farmers there produce enough wheat each year to make 12.6 billion loaves of bread.

- North Dakota’s Jamestown, also known as Buffalo City, houses the “World’s Largest Buffalo.” The statue is 26 feet tall, 46 feet long, and weighs 60 tons. A herd of bison graze below the statue, including a rare albino named Mahpiya Ska, Lakota for “White Cloud".

- Less than 1% of North Dakota is forest, the smallest amount of any state.

- Temperatures drop below 0° F on average of 65 days a year near the Canadian border and 35 days a year in the southwestern part of the state, making it one of the coldest states in the nation. The western parts of both Dakotas are also the windiest area of the United States.

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- Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.

- In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year.

- Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

- U.S. Postal Service processes 38 million address changes each year.

- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

- In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack.

- Alaska has 591,000 square miles (375,000,000 acres) and is double the size of the next largest state, Texas

- One of the earliest records of man in the Americas is a caribou bone with a serrated edge found at Old Crow in Alaska’s northern Yukon. Almost certainly used by man as a tool, carbon dating has placed the bone at 27,000 years old.

- In 1865, the Western Union Telegraph expedition, led by William Dall, surveyed the interior of Alaska for the first time, revealing its vast land and resources

- Alaska is the only U.S. state to produce platinum. Half a million ounces have been placer mined from southwestern Alaska since the first platinum nugget was discovered there by an Eskimo named Walter Smith in 1926.

- On a tip from fellow prospector Robert Henderson, a sourdough named George Cormack and his two Indian brothers-in-law, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found gold in Alaska’s Klondike Valley at Bonanza Creek on August 17, 1896. This sparked North America’s last great gold rush.

- Originally established as the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserving 1901, Tongass National Forest covers almost the entire southeastern Alaska panhandle, making it the largest national forest in the United States.

- The Red Dog zinc mine in northwest Alaska is the world’s largest zinc producer.

- Hawaii is the only state that is not geographically located in North America, is completely surrounded by water, and does not have a straight line in its state boundary.

- Born in Hawaii, Barack Obama is the only president from outside the continental United States.

- Because of its continuous volcanic eruptions, Hawaii is the only state in the nation to have an increasing land area.

- In the 1960s, astronauts trained for moon voyages by walking on Mauna Loa’s hardened lava fields, which resemble the surface of the moon.

- Surfing, or heenalu, was invented thousands of years ago by the Polynesians who first settled Hawaii. Their boards weighed more than 150 pounds and measured up to 20 feet.

- Hawaii is America’s youngest state, entering the nation on August 21, 1959.

- Ancient Hawaiians believed that the heavier a woman, especially a chieftess, the more beautiful she was. 

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- About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

- In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approximately 12,000 pounds.

- In America, 38% of doctors are Indians.

- In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.

- In the United States, ice cream is sold the most on a Sunday.

- The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

- The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max.

- The most common seasonings found in American homes are chili powder, cinnamon, and seasoned salts.

- Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times.

- According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year.

- All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873.

- The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The bananas were wrapped in tinfoil and were sold for 10 cents each.

- James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.

- 99% of the blueberries that are produced in the United States are produced in the state of Maine.

- The capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the only state capital in the United States that does not have a McDonalds.

- The first president to have a picture taken was John Quincy Adams.

- In the United States, six tubs of Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, are sold every second.

- The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.

- 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (big surprise, eh?)

- Approximately 40% of the states in the U.S. have severe, or extreme pollution problems.

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- 65% of the candy that is produced in an year is consumed by American adults 18 years and older.

- No president of the United States was an only child.

- Over 100 million birds die annually by crashing into glass windows in the United States.

- 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.

- 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

- People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world.

- The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes.

- Stinging insects kills approximately 25 people annually in the U.S.

- In the United States there are about three million honey producing colonies.

- 95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.

- There are more than 3000 documented caves located in the state of Tennessee.

- On average, Americans spend $1300 on utility bills annually.

- The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women.

- The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189.

- Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States.

- At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.

- The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world.

- The vegetable that is eaten most by Americans is potatoes. On average, a person eats about 140 pounds of potatoes annually.

- Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.

- In the U.S. the most common excuse made to get out of paying a ticket is to say they missed the sign. 

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- Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job.

- 75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.

- Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.

- The largest employer in Central Florida is Walt Disney World. There are approximately 50,000 people working there.

- In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops.

- The American Airlines Sports Center, in Dallas, has most toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the USA.

- The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.

- In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji.

- Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.

- 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

- There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US.

- Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.

- If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.

- On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

- The most famous movie theatre is the "Chinese Theatre" located in Los Angeles, USA.

- The American Automobile association was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.

- In 1848, the first American pasta factory opened in Brooklyn, New York. The name of the man that opened it was Antoine Zerega.

- The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores.

- David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.

- Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.

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- 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

- 18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation.

- The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

- The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years.

- The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington.

- The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.

- In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.

- The least likely day to eat out in the United States is Monday.

- Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

- Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.

- Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually.

- Each year the Pentagon estimates their computer network is hacked about 250,000 times annually.

- In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.

- Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

- In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles.

- There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA.

- In the year 2000, there were approximately 11,000 injuries that were treated in a hospital in the U.S. that resulted from fireworks.

- Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida.

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- 75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfast.

- 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.

- The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

- Every day, over five billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United States.

- The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school buses.

- In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.

- The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.

- Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA.

- According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.

- Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.

- Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.

- Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

- German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America.

- In total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per year.

- Annually, fires that occur at home kill more Americans than all natural disasters combined.

- The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year.

- Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

- Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.

- By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.

- Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

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- The tallest predictable geyser at Yellowstone is the Grand Geyser, which blows on average twice a day, for 12–20 minutes in a series of powerful bursts climbing to 200 feet (61 m).

- The world’s tallest active geyser, Steamboat, can erupt to more than 300 feet (90 m), showering its Yellowstone viewers with mineral-rich water.

- The 51 separate fires of 1988 employed 25,000 people to battle the blazes and cost $120 million to combat. Miraculously, only one life was lost. However, 36% of Yellowstone National Park—some 800,000 acres (1,250 square miles)—burned in those fires.

- Yellowstone Lake is the home to the largest population of cutthroat trout in North America.

- For years, anglers dipped their fresh-caught trout into the Fishing Cone hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, cooking a meal on the spot. Fishing in the Fishing Cone was banned after an angler was burnt by an eruption in the 1920s.

- U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.

- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

- In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

- In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

- In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married.

- Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash.

- Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

- Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

- Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930. 

- The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.

- In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.

- The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes.

- Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

- Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.

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