American workers talk about vacations, plan for them, dream about them and then, never take them. In the United States 415 million vacation days will go unused in 2004. Given a five day work week, that comes out to 1.6 million years of unused vacation.
- Chicago Tribune, July 6, 2004
Americans eat 4 million pounds of bacon and 175 million eggs every day.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.