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Do Americans Spend More Eating Out?
Yes. Food away from home made up 56.3% of US food spending in 2025, $1.41 trillion of $2.51 trillion, USDA Economic Research Service data show.
Read the story →How Many Americans Are Vegetarian or Vegan?
In Gallup's July 2026 poll, 5% of US adults said they consider themselves vegetarian and 2% vegan, about 1 in 20 and 1 in 50.
Read the story →Aliens in Disguise: 1 in 5 Say it Came from Outer Space
We already know that 1 in 2.94 American adults believe in UFOs. Now there is a Reuters News poll revealing that 1 in 5 people worldwide believe we do indeed live in a kind of Men…
Read the story →The Tiger Woods Question
With Tiger Woods’ personal life among the most talked about tempests in the public teapot, we have been asked by many sources about the odds of car accidents, golf accidents,…
Read the story →What Was the Shortest Nine-Inning MLB Game Ever?
The shortest nine-inning MLB game took 51 minutes: Giants 6, Phillies 1, Sept. 28, 1919. The fewest pitches by one pitcher is 58, a 1944 newspaper count.
Read the story →Atomic Odds: Surviving Two Nuclear Blasts
In 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi of Nagasaki, Japan was a technical draftsman designing oil tankers for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Early that year his wife gave birth to their first child, a…
Read the story →Pen and Pencil Injuries: US ER Visits
About 21,900 people were treated in US emergency departments in 2025 for injuries involving pens or pencils, by our estimate from CPSC case data.
Read the story →How Many US ER Visits Involve Beds?
CPSC estimates about 1.1 million people were treated in US emergency departments in 2024 for injuries involving beds, mattresses or pillows.
Read the story →Flood Season: Water, Water Everywhere
As New England mops up and tallies damages from a record-breaking mid-March storm, New Jersey is bracing for continued flooding, and the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Iowa are sandbagging. North Dakota’s…
Read the story →How Likely Are Americans to Die in Car Crashes?
In 2024, 39,254 people died in US motor vehicle traffic crashes, NHTSA says: about 11.5 per 100,000 people, or about 1 in 8,700 for the year.
Read the story →How Many Americans Die From Tripping?
CDC records 830 US deaths in 2024 under the code for level ground falls that covers trips and stumbles, about 1 in 410,000, of 48,308 accidental fall deaths.
Read the story →The odds a person will die from an accidental fall
1 in 14,380 The odds a person will die from an accidental fall in a year are 1 in 14,380 (US, 2006).
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