Facts & Trends

Due to the high demand of the "dip season," a national shortage of Velveeta has shoppers hunting stores for the gooey, bright-yellow "cheese product."  People planning Super Bowl parties are calling the shortage of the dip-friendly substance a "cheesepocalypse."  One fan ...

Average number of hours a U.S. child aged 8 to 18 spends using an electronic device or watching television each day: 7.6 ...

There have been thousands of fatal shootings by police since 2005, yet only 54 officers were ever charged with a crime, according to an analysis of official records.  Of those charged, just 11 were convicted or plead guilty ...

For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated ...

Human waste from the roughly 700 climbers who scale Mount Everest every year poses a serious health issue on the slopes, the head of Nepal’s mountaineering association warned on March 3. He urged the government to push climbers to dispose ...

Pope Francis accidentally cursed in Italian while delivering his weekly blessing at the Vatican, using the word cazzo, the equivalent to the F-bomb, rather than caso, which means “example.” ...

Homeowners in Centennial, Colo., woke up to a pleasant surprise last Sunday morning: a group of teens who went around shoveling their neighbors' sidewalks and driveways free of charge. "They did everything: the whole driveway, the stoop, the whole sidewalk," ...

One in six roofers suffers an injury each year. The least risky profession: Legal services ...

A new University of Washington study has found that 2.1 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese. Here's a snapshot of the percentage of people who fall in those categories around the world: Saudi Arabia - 69.4% U.S. - 67.4% ...

Researchers who swabbed and tested DNA from surfaces in New York City's subway system identified 562 species of bacteria, including microbes from mozzarella, sausage, hummus, kimchi, sauerkraut, rats, mice, and lice. Geneticist Christopher E. Mason said the bacteria found were ...