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Fascinating Fact #50: Just 28% of younger Millennials attend a weekly religious service — compared to 38% of Baby Boomers
Read MoreFascinating Fact #49: 91% of Americans say that voting in elections is important
Watch NowFascinating Fact #48: 7% of American adults say they read only digital books
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #47: Women make up 1 in 7 active-duty U.S. military members, as of 2019
Watch NowFascinating Fact #45: 55% of Americans ages 18 to 49 say they use digital voice assistants
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #44: 1 in 5 Americans live in a household with multiple generations under one roof
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #43: Ohio didn't formally become a state until 1953
Watch NowFascinating Fact #42: The Supreme Court agrees to hear about 80 cases each year out of an average of 7,000 to 8,000 petitions
Dive InFascinating Fact #40: Alaska is the state with the highest proportion of veterans as part of its population — 11%
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #39: President Woodrow Wilson declared Nov. 11, 1919, the first commemoration of Armistice Day. In 1954, Congress changed the holiday to Veterans Day.
Watch NowFascinating Fact #38: In June 2020, 28% of young people were neither in school nor in the workplace, the highest rate recorded for any June since 1989
Dive InFascinating Fact #37: 53% of parents say their school-age children have done volunteer work
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #36: 77% of U.S. adults say they believe God or a higher power has protected them
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #35: 13% of eligible voters in the 2020 U.S. presidential election were Hispanic
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Fascinating Fact #34: It took 146 years for the Supreme Court to get its own building
Watch NowFascinating Fact #33: 16.9M Americans are living after receiving a cancer diagnosis
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #32: 6% of American adults do not have a bank account
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #31: 78% of Americans feel that public libraries help them find information that is trustworthy and reliable
Read MoreFascinating Fact #30: 70% of Latino adults in the U.S. said they didn’t have emergency funds to cover three months of expenses, compared with 47% of White adults
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #29: 72% of U.S. adults who are religiously unaffiliated say they believe in a higher power of some kind
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #28: 35% of the American workforce are Millennials, the largest generation in the labor force
Learn moreFascinating Fact #27: 4 in 10 American adults believe spiritual energy can be found in physical objects
Watch NowFascinating Fact #26: 61% of Americans who did not vote in the 2018 midterms said they wish they had.
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #25: 9 in 10 Americans age 25 and older have a high school diploma — the biggest share of graduates in U.S. history
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #24: 79% of U.S. veterans say they would advise a young person close to them to join the military
Learn moreFascinating Fact #23: 15% of school-age kids in America have no internet access at home
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #22: At 84%, residents of Colorado have the highest self-reported rate of physical activity of any U.S. state, as of 2018
Dive InFascinating Fact #21: California the state with the highest percentage of people over age 5 who speak a language other than English at home — 44%
Learn moreFascinating Fact #20: 24% of the civilian workforce in the U.S. don't have paid sick leave
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #19: 38% of Americans say they limit their sugar intake
Watch NowFascinating Fact #18: 42% of Americans live in or near the community where they grew up
Watch NowFascinating Fact #17: 585K the approximate number of Americans participating in registered apprenticeship programs in the U.S. in fiscal year 2018
Watch NowFascinating Fact #16: 16.9% of active-duty military personnel were women in FY 2019 — up from 9% in 1980
Watch NowFascinating Fact #15: 7% of fathers are stay at home dads as of 2016 — compared to 4% in 1989
Dive InFascinating Fact #14: 58% of Americans living in rural areas say access to high-speed internet is a problem in their area
Watch NowFascinating Fact #13: 46% of U.S. adults say they feel a deep sense of wonder about the universe at least once a week
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #12: 32% of women age 65 and up live alone, as of 2014 — compared with 38% in 1990
Watch NowFascinating Fact #11: About 6 in 10 Americans feel attached to their communities
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #10: 61% of Americans age 65 and older owned a smartphone in 2020 — up from 53% in 2019
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #9: 26% of Americans say they identified as atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular in 2018 and 2019 — up from 17% in 2009
Learn MoreFascinating Fact #8: 40% of Americans in rural areas say they know all or most of their neighbors
Dive InFascinating Fact #7: 53% of Millennials said in 2016 that they had used a public library in the last year
Read MoreFascinating Fact #6: 28 The median age at first marriage for women in 2020, compared with 21 in 1969
Get the FactsFascinating Fact #5: 24% of American adults met federal guidelines for aerobic physical activity in 2018 — up from 18% in 2008
Learn moreFascinating Fact #4: 69% of Americans mentioned "family" when asked to name what provides them with a sense of meaning in life
Learn moreFascinating Fact #3: The median age of people who met their partners online was 36, compared to 51 among those who met their partners another way.
Dive InFascinating Fact #2: 21% of Americans were raised in interfaith homes
Read moreFascinating Fact #1: 85% of women ages 40 to 44 were mothers in 2018, compared to 81% in 1998.
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