For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year. Forty-six US federal agencies have officers with the authority to carry firearms and arrest people. Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Gerald Ford, George Bush, Tommy Lasorda, Ted Koppel, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bill Clinton are all left handed.
Humans are the only animals that copulate face to face.
In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47. In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes. Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.