Interesting facts about the United States

Interesting facts about the United States -

I am for two weeks in the US unexpectedly returned. After four and a half months in Europe, I needed a little break from the travel, start my book to the letter. Hostels are just not the right environment for writing, and with an airline credit I needed to use, I thought my parents' house to go to a good place. Despite all my time abroad, I really do, like the United States. It's got a fascinating history. Here are some interesting facts:

The US the fattest country in the world, with a third of adults obese

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world

[largestairport1945001] College Park, Maryland, has the oldest functioning in the US airport.

Point Roberts, Washington, can not enter or leave without going through Canada. Both nations have immigration entry points, despite a population of less than 1,000.

Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes."

is the longest stone arch bridge in the world, the Rockville Bridge in Marysville, Pennsylvania.

Salt Lake City has a law against wearing an unwrapped ukulele on the road. the world

The Hollywood Bowl in California the largest amphitheater.

, the first movie theater opened in Los Angeles in 102.

Tallahassee, Florida, was the only Confederate state capital, the fall in the Union during the Civil War.

not Maine grows 98% of the nation's blueberries.

Wabash, Indiana, was the first electrically lighted city in the world.

Pensacola (not St. Augustine), Florida, is actually the oldest European settlement in the US -founded. .. It was in 1559 by Don Tristan de Luna

The first public university in the United States was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kentucky has settled the longest cave system in the world - the mammoth cave system has over 0 miles of caves.

Wyoming ranks first in the United States was to allow women to hold office and vote.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France in 1884.

Although the statue with New York City is connected, it is physically in New Jersey.

Some of Gandhi's ashes can be found near Los Angeles in the Lake Shrine Temple.

, the first person to be president, who was born in a hospital, Jimmy Carter was.

Arlington National Cemetery once was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plantation.

Manhattan's Chinatown has the most Chinese residents in the Western Hemisphere.

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the nineteenth century London Bridge transplanted in Lake Havasu, Arizona, in 1968

Indians were not US citizens until 1924.

The king of Thailand is technically a American citizen. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1927.

The United States has no official language.

The word "sideburns" is named after the US Civil War General Ambrose Burnside.

Harvard University, the first in the US and was in 1636.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had a bet on the die would was first founded. They both died on July 4, 1826, each thinking the other had survived him.

The holiday of Thanksgiving is actually on the Civil War and was designed to bring the country together.

New york was once ruled by the Netherlands and New Amsterdam.

, the original capital of the United States was named Philadelphia. Washington, DC became the capital in 170.

The US Navy has the second largest air force in the world. The US Air Force has the first.

The US debt per person is $ 45,000 USD.

George Washington used to grow hemp.

In 1776, the Republic of Ragusa, now part of today's Croatia was the first country to the USA to recognize.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was in a theater.

All three major 1996 presidential candidates Clinton, Dole and Perot were left-handed.

The US banned alcohol found in 1919 with the 18th amendment. It was re-legalized the 21st time in 1933rd

American women got the right to vote in 1920.

In America you can drive a car if you 16, vote and own a gun, if you buy 18 and alcohol if you are 21

the United States is a republic with three branches of government. Legislative, executive and judicial

Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams was the first (and only) foreign-born First Lady.

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the US, but technically it is forgotten tune the number 47. and 1953 Congress on a resolution approved Ohio to the union.

the US population is 307 million.

40% of Americans do not believe in evolution.

A quarter of Americans believe that the sun revolves around the earth.

63% of young Americans can not Iraq on a map.

, the top 1% of Americans owns 33% of the wealth in America, more than the bottom 50% combined.

the bottom 50% of Americans controls 2.5% of the wealth of the nation.

Nine out of ten young Americans can not find Afghanistan on a map, even if you give them the advantage of a card limited to Asia.

Gerald Ford was to be both president and vice president of the only man, but was not elected to either post.

When Harry Truman left office in 1952, he got into his own car and drove back to Missouri.

was Andrew Jackson, the only US president the world is flat.

President Taft got stuck in his bathtub on his believing Inauguration Day and had to be pried out by his companions.

George Washington's false teeth of whale bones were made.

George Washington had to borrow money in order to go his own inauguration.

was elected in Ronald Reagan's oldest president.

The candy bar Baby Ruth was to baby daughter Grover Cleveland actually called Ruth.

The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world area.

32% of all land in the US is part of the federal government.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

For more information, facts and products to the US, check out these two useful contributions:
In the United States of America
USA Guide

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