Just Facts

Welcome to the Fact App, your tool to build a more educated and better world. The Fact App is a quick and exciting way to expand your knowledge about important issues and to share this knowledge with others. It is a powerful tool to improve lives by equipping people with information to make truly informed decisions. Do you and your friends know the answers to these critical questions? • What portion of Americans go hungry? • What portion of the U.S. economy is consumed by government? • After fertilization, how long does it take a human heart to begin beating? • At the current homicide rate, what are the chances of being murdered? • Who pays a higher federal tax rate: the middle class or upper 1% of income earners? With the Fact App, you will learn the answers to such questions and many more, and you will be able to easily share this information with others in a fun and thought-provoking way. This is not about learning game show trivia but tangible facts that empower people to make vital decisions. If you want to be highly informed about important issues and share this knowledge with others, this is the app for you. HOW IT WORKS On each weekday, the Fact App will ask you a question about a major issue facing society and then present several possible answers. After you select one, it will show the correct answer and a link to the supporting documentation. The Fact App then makes it easy to share this knowledge by testing your friends and colleagues through email, Facebook, or Twitter. It will also allow you to add your own thoughts and comments. ADDITIONAL FEATURES The Fact App will tell you what portion of people selected the correct answer for each question. It will also tell you what portion of the questions you answered correctly. You can scroll through all previous questions at your convenience. You can also easily embed the Fact App on your website or blog by visiting here: http://www.justfactsdaily.com/embed INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST The Fact App is a service of Just Facts, a non-profit institute dedicated to researching and publishing verifiable facts about public policy issues. Research from Just Facts has been widely cited by hundreds of sources across a wide ideological spectrum, including major media outlets, universities, think tanks, prominent commentators, scholarly journals, and government entities at local, state and national levels. THE VALUE OF FACTS “Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” - Edmund Burke “I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.” - Booker T. Washington “Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back.” – Sir Harold Bowden “The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.” – John Tyndall