Grant owned one slave in his life, William Jones, whom he set free in 1859. Julia had the use of four of her father's slaves. These slaves were all free by 1863. In 1864, the Grants hired one of those former slaves, whose name was also Julia, as a paid nurse.
The Ball State study found that the average American adult was exposed to five hours and nine minutes of live TV each day, almost 15 minutes of TV via a DVR device and 2.4 minutes of video on the computer.
So Much TV. On average, American adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day. The bulk of that â about four and a half hours of it â is live television, which is television watched when originally broadcast. Thirty minutes more comes via DVR.