Percent of American adults who resolve each New Year to spend more time with family and friends: 50
Gross revenues Boy Scouts earn from their annual popcorn sale: $65 million
Gross revenues Girl Scouts earn from their annual cookie sale: $700 million
The1882 birth date of A.A. Milne, a date also called Winnie the Pooh Day: January 18
Average number of snow-producing storms in the continental U.S. each year: 105
Percent annual growth of snowboarding, the fastest growing sport in the U.S.: 15
Percent of Snowboard.com readers who’ve had one surgery to repair a snowboarding injury: 18
Percent who’ve had two or more surgeries for a snowboarding injury: 15
Number of people who go to the 17-day Carnaval de Quebec, the biggest world’s biggest winter carnival: 1 million
Percent of couples who met in a bar: 11
Percent who met through friends: 37
Percent of women who wish their husbands were more romantic: 66
Percent of women who wish their husbands would show their love by giving them more jewelry: 18
Percent who wish they would give them more back massages: 49
Percent of women who save the Valentine’s card from their partner: 89
Percent of men: 73
Sources: About.com, Columbia News Service, NSIDC.org, National Geographic Traveler, Snowboard.com., Carnaval.qc.ca, American Greetings, The Oregonian, Redbook
