- 90% of the dollar bills spent in the U.S have small traces of cocaine on them.
- The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Tampa, Florida.
- It's against the law to sneeze or burp during a church service in the city of Omaha, Nebraska.
- Michigan's Lake Superior State University has a Department of Natural Unicorns. They grant Unicorn Hunting Licenses to its members but request that no unicorn hunting take place on February 14th, Valentine's Day, because unicorns = love.
- Due to its southwest location, from Stamford, Connecticut, you can drive north, south, east, or west and hit New York.
- If you travel the Mississippi River from north to south, you'll pass through 10 states.
- The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour.
- Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.
- A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
- Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
- About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
- Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
- The famed Appalachian Trail is spread across 14 states, but over 25% of the trail is located in Virginia alone.
- As compared to the United States, china has more English speakers.
- The United States has 4.4 percent of the world's population, but twenty-two of the world's prison population.
- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald McDonald.
- Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7.
- Around 50 per cent of the US lies beneath the ocean.
- Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.
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