We use these facts to get students to talk about them

1-Thirty percent of American households have a dog.
2-Twenty-two percent have a cat.
3-Eight Percent have some other kind of pet.
4-Most people in the world live near a large body of water, an ocean, a river, or a lake.
5-More than half of all Americans move to Florida, California, Arizona, and Texas.
6-English is the official language of 87 countries of the world.
7-My interest is in the future because I am to spend the rest of my life there.
8-Alcohol slows the body's ability to burn fat. That's why beer drinkers develop a large stomach.
9-Children who live with smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer later in life than children of non-smoking parents.
10-In 1776 the average person in North America could expect to live 35 years.
11-He that travels much knows much.
12-In 1989, 2,066,510 people traveled between New York and San Francisco by airplane.
13-When men and women agree, it is only in the conclusion; their reasons are always different.
14-About 25% of all American married women are older than their husbands.
15-Most Americans marry between the ages of 25 and 29.
People who live together before marriage are 33% more likely to get a divorce
16-Telephone books in the United States have a lot of useful information in them:
17-What to do in an emergency, community services and public transportation, information about shopping, recreation.
18-The average American gets 2.5 messages on his or her message machine per day.
19-You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
20-Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.
21-Animals are good at predicting the weather. Frogs croak when the air pressure falls.
Before rain, ants move to higher ground and sheep's wool curls.
22-Lightening strikes somewhere on earth about 6,000 times a minute
23-It is safer to be in a car during a thunderstorm than a house. If lightening strikes a car it goes through the tires to the ground.
24-The United States, with Bermuda, has the highest divorce rates, about twice as high as in other industrial countries.