21 Interesting Facts About The United States Of America
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Portions of knowledge to better your fourth of July.
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1. 100 acres of Pizza are served in the U.S. every day.
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2. Just 2.5 million people lived in the U.S.A. in 1776. Today it’s 314 million.
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3. An American soldier ran across the border to North Korea in 1962 and has been living there ever since.
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4. Thousands of Americans migrated to the USSR in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
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5. Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate.
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6. America's first slave owner was a black man.
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7. There are at least 97 people called "LOL" in the U.S.
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8. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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9. Every tweet Americans send is being archived by the Library of Congress.
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10. 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.
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11. U.S. former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other, on the 4th of July in 1826.
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12. There's an official Rock Paper Scissors League.
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13. The U.S. has no official language.
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14. Valentine's Day is also National Condom Day in the U.S.
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15. The launch code for all U.S. Minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code: 00000000.
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16. In 1943, the U.S. banned sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure.
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17. American flags made in China are banned in the U.S. Military.
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18. The State of New Jersey, U.S.A., was originally called Lorraine and New Sweden.
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19. In WWII, the U.S. and New Zealand secretly tested "tsunami bombs" designed to destroy coastal cities.
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20. Gerald Ford was the only to have served as both U.S. President and Vice President without being elected to either position.
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21. The U.S. has 19 aircraft carriers, compared to the rest of the world's 12 aircraft carriers combined.
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