Facts & Trends
Things Are Getting Heavy
Mississippi has overtaken West Virginia as the fattest state in the union, with an obesity rate of 35.4 percent. Montana had the lowest obesity rate—19.6 percent ...
Economic Gains
Ninety-five percent of all economic gains in the U.S. since the Great Recession went to the top 1 percent ...
Statistics Of Rape
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 ...
Change In The Number Of Overweight People
Percentage change in the number of overweight people in the developing world since 1980: +261 ...
Missing Airplanes
Total number of passenger planes that have gone missing without a trace since 2000: 10 ...
From The Pope’s Mouth
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.” ...
Obese Americans
American men are weighing in at an average of 196 pounds—16 pounds more than in 1990, a new Gallup survey has found.The average weight for women jumped 14 pounds—to 156 pounds— over the same period. Gallup estimates 62 percent of ...
Deprivation
"Women deprived of the company of men pine; men deprived of the company of women become stupid." - Anton Chekhov ...
Air Pollution in India
According to the U.N., India has 13 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities. Low vehicle-emission standards, booming industrialization, crowded cities and the burning of trash means that the vast majority of Indians breathe unsafe air ...
