Roughly 1 in 10 adults in America has a net worth of at least $1 million. In total, the US boasts ~24 million individual millionaires, the most of any country and nearly four times as many as second-place China. That’s also 15 times more millionaires than the US had 30 years ago.
The alcohol drinking level hit an 86-year low among US adults in August. According to a new Gallup poll, only 54 percent of adults reported that they drink alcohol, an eight percentage point decrease from 2023.
In Nazi Germany, an estimated 400,000 people were sterilized under the Hitler regime in the name of 'racial hygiene'.
Reading for pleasure among Americans has declined by 40% over the past two decades, according to researchers at University College, London and the University of Florida:
In 2004, 28% of Americans said they read for fun.
In 2023, only 16% said they read because they wanted to and not only because they were assigned Great Expectations for an English Lit project.
Firearms killed more children in the U.S.A. than any other cause - more than cancer, more than car crashes - for three years in a row.
4,063 drive-in movie theaters were operating in the US in 1958. Today, there are only about 283.
