26CEO vs Employees Pay Rise Stats
Inflation-adjusted CEO pay in the United States rose 937 percent from 1978 to 2013, while the average worker's wages gained only 10 percent during the same time period.
27. During the past two decades, thousands of retired Russian nuclear warheads have provided 10% of the electricity used in the United States.
28. About 2 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to a passenger on the Mayflower who fell overboard and survived by clinging to a trailing rope.
29. An estimated 36 million people in the United States are toothless. It is largely influenced by the fact that 30% of Americans do not wash their teeth twice daily, and 2% do not brush at all. Their tooth loss is exacerbated by factors such as their diet, getting older, and avoiding the dentist.
30. As many as 49% of Americans suffer from parallelophobia, or the fear of parallel parking. Only about half (53 percent, to be exact) feel confident in their ability to parallel park.
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31Americans Leaving Hometown
Of all Americans, 37% have never left their hometown, and 57% have never left their native state, with the exceptions of education and military service.
32. More than half of all Americans didn't use their vacation time in 2016, resulting in 206 million unused vacation days worth around $66.4 billion. Employees who don't use all of their vacation time also don't do as well in their jobs.
33. The opioid epidemic of the 1890s was fueled primarily by patent medicines and affected one in every 220 Americans. Injecting addicts with a substance called "bichloride of gold," which sounded spectacular but had no medicinal effects, was a common treatment.
34. In 1870, the percentage of the US state of Vermont covered by forest had decreased to 30% due to logging and grazing. This number is now close to 78%!
35. In the United States, 67% of all fire departments are wholly or primarily staffed by volunteers.
