50 Interesting Facts of the United States

Today we are looking at 50 strange and or little-known facts about the United States. Some of these things you might know but I'm sure most of them you don't but I guarantee you're gonna find quite a few that are really interesting.

Let's take a look at number 1, the state of Alaska is big as a matter of fact it is so large that it can hold the entire state of Texas inside it twice.

Number 2, there's a town in Pennsylvania called intercourse.

Number 3, the world's largest frying pan is in Rose Hill, North Carolina and they actually use it to cook with occasionally, it's not just some fiberglass frying pan they put up for decorations.

Number 4, the first American flag was sown by Betsy Ross, who was only paid a dollar and 25 cents for her work and even by today's standards, it wasn't much in today's money. She got paid thirty four dollars.

Number 5, Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote it was in 1869.

Number 6, there's a town in Arizona called Nothing.

Number 7, the tallest mountain in the United States

is Denali it's actually the highest mountain peak in North America with a summit elevation

of 20,310 feet above sea level, if you look at base to peak because it's the land that it's on is above sea level it's about 18,000 feet.

Number 8, there's a giant ball of twine in Cawker City, Kansas it weighs over seventeen thousand pounds.

Number 9, the United States is the only country to landed humans on the Moon.

Number 10, the state of Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

Number 11, the shortest river in the world is the Roe River in Montana, it's only 201 feet long.

Number 12, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France that arrived in New York City in 1885. Here's the strange thing, it showed up in the United States in 214 crates; putting it together was going to cost a lot of money New York City didn't have. There were at least five other major cities that wanted it that had the money to put it up. New York City was about to lose it so it sat in crates below the island. Giant newspaper man, Joseph Pulser started a fund-raising campaign that got the money to put Lady Liberty up to where she is to this day in 1956 Congress renamed Bedlow Island to Liberty Island.

Number 13, there's a town in Nebraska called Monowa, and it only has one person. Yes, it's a real town and it's incorporated.

Number 14, the United States has the largest number of billionaires in the world.

Number 15, the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees Fahrenheit that's in California's death valley and it was in 1913.

Number 16, the longest suspension bridge in the United States is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City which spans over 13,000 feet it connects Brooklyn with Staten Island.

Number 17, the United States has the largest prison population in the world.

Number 18, the first

McDonald's restaurant was opened in San Bernardino, California in 1940. It was just a single place it wasn't until 1955 when businessman, Ray Kroc, got involved and started it on the path to what it is today.

Number 19, the state of Maine has the largest toothpick manufacturing plant in the world.

Number 20, the world's largest diamond was found in the South African Mine and was later cut and polished in New York City.

Number 21, the United States has the largest economy in the world.

Number 22, the first successful powered airplane flight was made by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. The strange thing is it wasn't at Kitty Hawk it was South Kitty Hawk at a place called Kill Devil Hills. The other strange thing most people think it was just a

glider but no, it had a motor.

Number 23, the largest ball of paint in the world is in Alexandria, Indiana.

Number 24, the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by the Colorado River.

Number 25, the first public library in the United States was opened in Boston in 1854.

Number 26, the first successful heart transplant was performed in the United States in 1967.

Number 27, the state of California has more residents than the entire country of Canada. They have more maple syrup than California.

Number 28, there's a town in Iowa called What Cheer and it's a fitting name because this place there's no cheer going on here. It's nothing but boarded up buildings.

Number 29, the United States consumes more chocolate per capita than any other country.

Number 30, the highest waterfall in the United States is Yosemite Falls in California, it drops 2,400 feet.

Number 31, the longest escalator in the western hemisphere, is in the Wheaton Metro Station in Maryland.

Number 32, the United States is home to more serial killers than any other nation.

Number 33, the first U.S capital was New York City.

Number 34, the United States has the world's largest military budget. It's over 800 billion but right now next in line is China and they estimate theirs is about 250 billion and India's after them and they have less than 100 billion.

Number 35, there's a town in Oregon called Boring.

Number 36, the United States has more tornadoes than any country in the world every single year.

Number 37, the highest capital city in the United States is Santa Fe, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,198.

Number 38, the world's largest snowflake on record, fell in Montana in 1887. It measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.

Number 39, the United States has the most airports.

Number 40, the first drive-in movie theater in the world opened in New Jersey in 1933.

Number 41, the first person to receive a social security check was Ida May Fuller who received 22.54 on January 31st 1940.

Number 42, the first ever televised presidential debate was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.

Number 43, the U.S rail network is comprised of nearly 140,000 miles of track and over 100,000 bridges.

Number 44, Paul Geidel Jr., he served the longest prison sentence of any inmate in the United States, 68 years 257 days.

Number 45, the first automobile accident in the United States occurred in New York City in 1891.

Number 46, the Louisiana Purchase in which the U.S bought vast amounts of land from France costs only three cents an acre.

Number 47, Yuma, Arizona's high school team is called the criminals. The school was established in 1909. Yuma High's mascot came in when the original school building was destroyed by fire in 1910 and the school then used the Yuma Territorial Prison which had been closed for the next three years. Classes were actually held in the cell blocks and assemblies took place in the prison hospital. Because of this and the fact that a phoenix newspaper one time called them a bunch of criminals because they thought they cheated in a football game and the name stuck.

Number 48, the U.S has the highest rate of opioid addiction in the world

Number 49, in 1893, there were only two cars in the state of Kentucky and they had a head-on collision.

Number 50, the United States has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy.