| 'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! " |
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| A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! |
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| About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole. |
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| About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day. |
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| Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world. |
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| Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War. |
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| Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf! |
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| Arizona boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations. |
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| Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia. |
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| Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S. |
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| Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican. |
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| Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped. |
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| Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist. |
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| Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree. |
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| Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace! |
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| In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000. |
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| In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die! |
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| In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city. |
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| In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer. |
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| In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States. |
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| In Florida, It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit. |
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| In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging. |
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| In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back. |
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| In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket. |
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| In Kentucky, It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License. |
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| In Massachusetts, It is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath. |
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| In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people! |
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| In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons! |
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| It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho! |
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| It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. |
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| It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska! |
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| It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! |
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| J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands. |
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| Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker. |
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| Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States. |
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| Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital. |
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| John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy! |
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| John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA! |
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| Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River). |
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| Missouri and Kansas each have a Kansas City. |
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| More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies. |
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| More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads. |
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| Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land. |
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| No one knows who designed the first American Flag. |
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| No president of the United States was an only child. |
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| Of all things, Andrew Jackson?s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States! |
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| Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state. |
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| Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! |
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| Smith is the most common last name in the United States. A little over 1% of all Americans share that last name. |
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| Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California. |
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| The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking! |
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| The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado! |
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| The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964. |
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| The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep! |
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| The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman. |
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| The state of Florida is bigger than England! |
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| The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania. |
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| The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers. |
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| The U.S. founding fathers' name for the American Revolution was 'The War with Britain'. |
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| The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993. |
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| The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps. |
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| The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does. |
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| The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956. |
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| The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy. |
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| The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used. |
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| The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world. |
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| The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume. |
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| The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas. |
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| The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat. |
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| The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there. |
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| There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States! |
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| There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year. |
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| There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C. |
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| U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline. |
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| Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! |
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| Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn?t a federal crime to assassinate the President. |
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| Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents! |
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