A couple more facts for your day – as if you didn’t have enough:
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The annual amount by which McKinsey & Co. estimates the U.S. is "overpaying" for health care: $477 billion
The fraction of U.S. health care spending represents as part of global health care spending: 50%
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Percentage of Americans who had, by March 2008, made summer vacation plans: 16%
Percentage that did so by March, 2007: 48%
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Number of new ‘major’ airports China is expected to open by 2020: 97
Number of new airports expected to open in the U.S. in the same period: 2
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Estimated value of coins going unused in the U.S.: $150 billion
Value of unused coins per household: $90
Cost to the U.S. Mint to make one nickel: 7.7 cents.
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Sources: John Kador , CEO INfact research, General Administration of Civil Aviation of China , U.S. Mint , Coinstar , American Research Group
