Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes. That was back in 1789 and it still holds in the U.S. more than 230 ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...