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1. The United States has more public libraries than McDonald’s.
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2. U.S. libraries circulate more items every day than FedEx ships packages (5.4 vs. 5.3 million).
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3. U.S. public library cardholders outnumber Amazon customers by almost 5 to 1.
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4. Americans go to libraries more than twice as often as they go to the movies.
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5. Americans spend more than three times as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries.
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6. Libraries hold 16 billionbooks worldwide.
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7. Libraries record more than 1.1 billion visits each year, compared to 204 million sports tickets sold in a year.
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8. Students visit school library media centers almost 1.5 billion times during the school year.
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9. Americans spend seven times as much money on home video games as they do on school library materials for their children.
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10. College and university librarians answer 97 million reference questions each year.
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