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Hello fact fans this week we are talking about facts about the States




  1. The current 50-star American flag was designed by a 17-year-old as a school project in 1958. He got a B-. Learn more about
  2. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire landmass of North and South America in one foot of liquid
  3. We sell enough pizza every day to cover 100 acres.
  4. The largest air force in the world is the U.S. Air Force. The world’s second-largest air force is the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combined.
  5. Three of the world’s five oldest rivers flow here: The New, the Susquehanna, and the French Broad Rivers are each hundreds of millions of years old.
  6. The government is still paying one pension on behalf of a Civil War veteran (to his 85-year-old daughter).
  7. Statistically, the deadliest job in America is … president. Of the 45 men who’ve held the post, four have been assassinated in office—a rate of roughly 9 percent (or about one in ten) killed on the job
  8. The only U.S. president to own a patent and a saloon: Abraham Lincoln. His patent was for a device to lift boats over sandbars. His saloon was a miserable failure.
  9. The only president who was an executioner: Grover Cleveland. As sheriff of Erie County, New York, he hanged a murderer
  10. According to the World Giving Index, Americans are the most likely people in the world to help a stranger. 

I hope you learn somthing today and as always have a chilled day from the Viking.


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