It Is 118 Degrees in This National Park
The National Park Service calls Death Valley National Park the "hottest, driest and lowest" national park.
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This Is America’s Best City for Hiking
Running media often provide the best places to run. These cover short tracks and often list distances as long as marathons. However, not everyone wants to move at the pace of four or five…
COVID-19: This State Has the Fewest People in Hospitals
It is easy to forget how terrible the spread of COVID-19 has been in America. The headlines more recently have focused on outbreaks in Brazil, India and Indonesia. However, there have been 34,462,236 confirmed…
The Most Visited National Historic Site in America
What does it mean to be a historic site? For tourists, they dot countries in Europe. Many are centuries old. Some are places where battles took place. Others are where royal persons were coronated…
This City Has 124 Houses For Sale for $1,000 Each
Detroit, many of its neighborhoods blighted by the flight of citizens, has come up with a program to sell many homes that it owns because of taxes which were in arrears and are unoccupied.…
This State Spends the Least on Your Health
As the number of baby boomers grows, so does the worry that health care costs will rocket higher in the United States. The oldest of the boomers are nearly 75 and the youngest are…
This Is the Largest Car Recall in History
General Motor’s Chevy division recalled some of its Bolt EV models because of potential engine fires. The embarrassment and bad publicity for the “Tesla killer” was compounded by the fact that it was the…
This Is the State Where People Can’t Make Ends Meet
The U.S. Census Bureau began to track the effects of COVID-19 on the population through its Household Pulse Survey on April 23 of last year. As the agency’s researchers wrote at the time, “The…
This Is America’s Most Trusted Institution
Small business was the most trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
This Is America’s Least Trusted Institution
Congress was the least trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
This Is How Much Time Americans Watch TV
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time in 2020.
This Is How Much Time Americans Spend Sleeping
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that sleeping was the activity in which the largest percentage of Americans spent time.
This City Has the Most Places to Fix a Car
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that Bakersfield, California, has the most car repair locations.
This Is the Largest Rocket Ever Launched Into Space
The Saturn V, used in the NASA program from 1967 and 1973, is the largest and heaviest rocket ever launched.
The Most Popular Villain of All Time
The most popular villain in film appears in 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" and was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.
It Is 118 Degrees in This Huge American City
The American Southwest is in the vice of a massive heat wave that covers several states. The all-time U.S. record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, set in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913, could…
This Is the Slowest-Selling Car in America
The American automotive industry was battered by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first three quarters of 2020. People could not visit dealerships. Vehicles languished on dealer lots. That started to change late in the…
This Is the Newest Country in the World
South Sudan, which was part of Sudan, was declared independent in July of 2011.
This Is the Largest Object Circling the Earth
The International Space Station is the largest object in orbit around the Earth by far.
COVID-19: This Is How Many Americans Have Died Each Month
COVID-19 entered the United States early last year. The first known infection was recorded on January 21, 2020, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It was the start of a…