Facts & Trends

A Polish prisoner triggered a crackdown on other inmates after he posted a photo of a large Cannabis plant that he'd grown in his cell.  To boast about his green thumb, Dozy Zendarski took a selfie with the plant using a smuggled smartphone and posted it to ...

61% - Percentage of employed vacationers who plan to work during their time off doing tasks such as... 38% - Emailing 32% - Accessing work documents on computer 30% - Calling 24% - Texting 20% - Fielding requests by boss, client or co-worker to do work ...

A British accent is the most attractive in the world, according to a poll of 11,000 people in 24 cities around the world. An American accent came in second, followed by Irish and Australian. French, once considered the language of love, ...

Percentage of Americans aged 18 to 31 with credit-card and student-loan debt, respectively, in 1989: 43, 18 Today: 36, 40 ...

If nightmares about Jaws are keeping you from taking a dip in the ocean, relax. You're much less appetizing than you think. 11: U.S. fatalities from sharks, 1990-2006 16: U.S. fatalities from collapsing sand holes, 1990-2006 1 in 310,733: Odds of dying in a fireworks accident 1 in 3,750,000: Odds of dying in a shark ...

Almost one in five women—19.3 percent—has been raped, and 44 percent have suffered sexual violence, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly half of the women who were raped identified the perpetrator as a ...

A nonprofit group in San Francisco is helping the city's homeless population with a former public transit bus that's been outfitted with two bathrooms, complete with toilets and hot showers. "If you're living on the streets and you're filthy, you ...

Parts of the Northeast received up to 18 inches of snow over Memorial Day weekend.  Snow blanketed parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, and upstate New York ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the worst place in the world to give birth, according to Save the Children.  One in 30 Congolese women dies from complications of childbirth, and tens of thousands of them have been impregnated ...

16.0% Percentage of total military forces who are female 71.9% Percentage of military forces who are Caucasian 2.2% Percentage of military forces who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual ...