About how many Americans were projected to travel over Thanksgiving in 2025?
Answernearly 82 million
Thanksgiving is consistently one of the busiest U.S. travel periods of the year.
Source: AAA (2025) newsroom.aaa.com
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About what share of U.S. employees received some form of paid vacation or holiday time, per a 2007 estimate?
Answerabout 75%
The U.S. has no federal law requiring any paid vacation at all, unlike most other wealthy countries.
Source: Wikipedia, citing BLS data (2007) en.wikipedia.org
About how many valentines are exchanged in the U.S. each year, not counting school classroom exchanges?
Answerabout 190 million
Counting school valentine exchanges pushes the total up to roughly 1 billion.
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
Per a 2019 NRF survey, how did the share of Americans celebrating Valentine's Day change over the previous decade?
Answerdeclined steadily
Cited reasons included the holiday's commercialization and more people being single.
Source: Wikipedia, citing NRF data (2019) en.wikipedia.org
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