The US Department of Labor has released some interesting information about how Americans spend their time.  The main chart is for all adults 15 and older, but they have subgrouped charts for different age groups. 

I have no idea how they compiled all this information, but it’s pretty interesting.  For instance, the average American apparently spends 1.1 hours per day caring for others.  We’d do more for others, I guess, if we weren’t spending 2.6 hours a day on leisure and sports activities. 

The web is full of interesting resources like this, but most people just don’t know about it.  Here’s a few more that you may find interesting:

• The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection:  Thousands and thousands of searchable images.
• NASA’s collection of over 9000 photographs of space, space missions, and spacecraft.
• The country’s 5000 fastest growing private companies list from Inc.
• A huge list of historic government documents courtesy of the University of Michgan Library.

It’s easy to get so busy with our usual leisure surfing and forget that there’s a terribly vast opportunity online for learning and exploration.