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Think you’re paying too much for your property tax where you live? Check these numbers to see if you really are.

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Garbage: it’s dirty, smelly and pretty disgusting. But someone’s got to take care of the 250 million tons of it that Americans produce each year, at a cost of billions of dollars to collect, dispose and recycle.

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A shocking look at literacy around the world.

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Technology has many benefits, one of which is to make us more efficient workers. And throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, productivity has increased as technology has made it easier for us to work faster and connect with our fellow workers. This is a look at the United States's labor force's productivity.

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Here, we’ve got a ranking of the top “social” cities around the country based on how much time and energy working stiffs spend trolling social networking sites. No. 1 on the list is San Francisco.

All of the complexity of the Afghan conflict — and all of the bureaucracy NATO used to manage the counterinsurgency effort — was summed up by a single spaghetti monster of a PowerPoint slide. "When we understand [it]," war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal joked when he saw the slide, "we’ll have won the war."

A study by Pew Internet was recently released, which focused on mobile phone behaviour among American adults. In this study, it was determined that 72% of American adult cell phone users send and receive text messages on a regular basis. A number of other interesting findings were included in this study, the most interesting of which are illustrated below:

Terrorism is politically motivated violence committed against the civilian population. September 11 is the biggest of all.

US Typography Map.

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 6 in 2010). It is the 3rd most popular occasion to barbecue!