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The United States is the world's second-largest automobile market by sales, having been overtaken by China in 2010, [390] and the U.S. has the highest vehicle ownership per capita in the world, [391] with 910 vehicles per 1000 people. [392] By value, the U.S. was the world's largest importer and third-largest exporter of cars in 2022. [393]
In the United States, 75 percent of crimes are committed by high school dropouts. Around 60 percent of black dropouts end up spending time incarcerated. [45] The incarceration rate for African-American male high school dropouts was about 50 times the national average as of 2010. [46]
In 2017, there were 106,147 elementary schools (73,686 public, 32,461 private) in the United States, a figure which includes all schools that teach students from first grade through eighth grade. [2] According to the National Center for Education Statistics , in the fall of 2020 almost 32.8 million students attended public primary schools.
So many of us grow up not knowing basic facts about major milestones in our history. There's no time like the present to learn! And, if we tell our kids these stories, we'll hopefully break the ...
The United States also developed the Global Positioning System, which is the world's pre-eminent satellite navigation system. [150] U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. The United States is the only country that has sent crewed missions to the lunar surface.
Segregation laws in the United States prior to Brown v. Board of Education. For much of its history, education in the United States was segregated (or even only available) based upon race. Early integrated schools such as the Noyes Academy, founded in 1835, in Canaan, New Hampshire, often were met with fierce local opposition.
Under federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [41] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [42] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [43] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [44]
Here are 10 interesting facts you should know about Simone BIles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian: 1. Simone Biles has been called the 'Michael Jordan of gymnastics'