FACTS ABOUT USA 4
- There are more unemployed workers in the United States than there are people living in the entire nation of Greece.
- The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world by area.
- On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually.
- Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S.
- The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan.
- The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
- Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
- On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight.
- On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.
- Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.
- The most difficult locations in which to qualify for a National Merit Scholarship are Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. The easiest states in which to qualify are Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Wyoming.
- There are sixty women colleges in the United States in twenty-four states. The state with the most women’s colleges is Massachusetts, with eight. Pennsylvania comes in second with seven.
- Costs associated with higher education constitute 3 percent of the gross national product.
- There are over 4,000 accredited colleges and universities in the U.S. which enroll over 15 million students and grants over two million degrees a year.
- Skull and Bones is the most prestigious of Yale’s senior societies. Its members have included William Howard Taft, William F. Buckley, George H.W. Bush, John Kerry, and George W. Bush.
- As late as 1940, fewer than 1 in 20 adults held a B.A. degree. From 1945-2000, the number of B.A degrees awarded annually rose almost eightfold, from 157,349 to approximately 1.2 million.
- Harvard is the oldest college in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in the United States.
- A group of Harvard students were expelled in 1920 for homosexual conduct. The expulsion committee’s treatment of the students led to the suicide of two students and permanently ruined the reputation of others.
- Yale has the second largest academic library in the nation, boasting 9.5 million volumes. Harvard's is the largest, with 13.6 million volumes.
- U.S. colleges with an acceptance rate of 100% include Baker College in Flint, MI; West Virginia University at Parkersburg; Mountain State University in Beckley, WV; and Northwest University in Kirkland, WA.
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