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11/09/2013

43 Interesting Facts About . . .Canada

Kanata is the St. Lawrence-Iroquoian word for "village" or "settlement."

“O Canada,” originally named “Chant national,” was written by Adolphe-Basile Routhier (French lyrics) and Calixa Lavallée (music) and first performed in Quebec City in 1880. The song was approved by the Parliament of Canada in 1967 as the unofficial national anthem and adopted officially on July 1, 1980.

The border between Canada and the United States is officially known as the International Boundary. At 5,525 miles, including 1,538 miles between Canada and Alaska, it is the world's longest border between two nations.

The Canadian motto, A Mari Usque ad Mare, means "From sea to sea."

The Canadian flag is known as The Maple Leaf or l'Unifolié

Although Nova Scotia was granted the British Empire's first flag by King Charles I in 1625, Canada did not have a national flag until February 15, 1965, when its maple leaf flag was adopted by its parliament. Before that, the red ensign, a British maritime flag, was in general use.

At 3,855,103 square miles, Canada is the second largest country in the world, behind Russia. Its population density is 8.6 people per square mile, making Canada the ninth-most sparsely populated nation in the world.

The average life expectancy at birth for a Canadian is 81.16 years, the eighth highest in the world. The United States ranks 46th, at 78.14 years.

The east coast of Canada was settled by Vikings around the year A.D. 1000. Archaeological evidence of a settlement has been found at L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.

Snorri, the first North American child to be born of European parents (Thorfin and Gudrid), was born in Vinland around A.D. 1000.n

Newfoundland was the first part of Canada to be explored by Europeans. Ironically, it was the last area to become a province, in 1949.

In 1642, a group of religious mystics from France were inspired by a vision to build a missionary city in the Canadian wilderness. Led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve and an Ursuline nun name Jeanne Mance, they founded Montreal.

According to the 2001 census, 42.6% of Canadians are Roman Catholic, 23.3% are Protestant, and 16% claim to have no religion.

Alert, in Nunavut territory, is the northernmost permanent settlement in the world.
Canada became a country on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act was passed by the British Parliament.

The Mounted Police were formed in 1873, with nine officers. In 1920, the Mounted Police merged with the Dominion Police to become the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police, an organization that now has more than 28,000 members.

While ice hockey is Canada's most prevalent sport, lacrosse is the country's official sport.h The modern game of ice hockey was developed in Canada, based on games that have been played since the tenth century.c The rules were first published in the Montreal Gazette in 1877.

Canadian James Naismith invented basketball to give his physical education students at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, an indoor team sport to play during the long winters.

The capital city, Ottawa, was originally named Bytown after Colonel John By, who headquartered there while building the Rideau Canal to connect the Ottawa River with Lake Ontario.

Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at 151,600 miles.

The regent of England, currently Queen Elizabeth II, is the Canadian head of state.

North America's earliest undisputed evidence of human activity, 20,000-year-old stone tools and animal bones have been found in caves on the Bluefish River in northern Yukon.

North America's lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 C) at Snag, Yukon Territory, on February 3, 1947.

Canada is known as the home of large animals like the moose and grizzly bear, but it is also home to about 55,000 species of insects and about 11,000 species of mites and spiders.

Canada contains 9% of the world's renewable water supply.

The official languages of Canada are English and French. Throughout Canada's history up to the current time, there have been conflicts between English and French-speaking Canadians. Tensions between French Canada and English Canada reached a head in October 1970, when the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)—a terrorist organization that had bombed cities, robbed banks, and committed a number of other crimes—kidnapped the U.K. Trade Commissioner, Richard Cross. The army put an end to the revolt and arrested several hundred suspects.

In 1527, John Rut of St. John's, Newfoundland, sent a letter to King Henry VIII—the first letter sent from North America.

Charles Fenerty, a poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the first person to use wood fibers to make paper. He started experimenting in 1839 and produced paper from wood pulp in 1841.

Canadians have made many important inventions, including Kerosene, the electron microscope, the electronic organ, insulin, the IMAX film system, the snowmobile, and the electric cooking range.

Canada is a major producer and consumer of cheese. In 1997, Canadians produced 350,000 tons of at least 32 varieties of cheese and ate an average of 23.4 pounds per person, with cheddar being the most popular.

Many famous authors have come from Canada, including Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), and Alice Munro (Lives of Girls and Women).

A black bear cub from Canada named Winnipeg (or “Winnie,” for short) was one of the most popular attractions at the London Zoo after it was donated to the zoo in 1915. Winnie became a favorite of Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the stories written by his father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.

The Moosehead Brewery in Saint John, New Brunswick, turns out 1,642 bottles of beer per minute.

Guy Lombardo of London, Ontario, first heard “Auld Lang Syne” as a teenage musician, when he and his brothers toured the rural areas that had been settled by Scots around his hometown.

Canada has made a significant contribution to rock and roll, beginning with “Sh-Boom” by the Crew-Cuts in 1954. Other famous Canadian rock-and-rollers include Paul Anka, Neil Young, the Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Steppenwolf, Avril Lavigne, Rush, Bryan Adams, and Ba*****ed Ladies.

Cryptozoologists claim that Canada is the home of several cryptids, including Sasquatch, a giant sloth-like creature known as the beaver-eater, a cannibalistic wildman named Windigo, and a number of lake monsters, such as Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia.

The natives of eastern Canada tell several stories of a mythical giant named Glooscap, who carved out many of the region's natural features to help him overcome his evil twin brothers. It is believed that these Glooscap stories might be the origin of many of the Paul Bunyan legends.

The world's strongest current is found in the Nakwakto Rapids at Slingsby Channel, British Columbia. The current has been measured at speeds up to 18.4 miles per hour.

The West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, was once the world's largest shopping mall. It now ranks fifth, but it still contains the world's largest indoor amusement park.

Alberta has 50% of the world's supply of bitumen.

The CN Tower in Toronto was the world's tallest free-standing structure until it was eclipsed in 2007.

Manitou Lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the world's largest lake within a lake (41.1 square miles).

11/09/2013

100 Fun US. Facts
Welcome to Fun and Amazing Facts About the United States! These facts contain some little-known and curious facts about the United Staes and its history! Feel free to read and enjoy them all. All facts have been taken from various sources and have been checked for accuracy as much as possible. We have stopped at 100 to avoid an endless list. We edit the facts as needed and add new ones to replace older ones. They are in no particular order.

100.
Some of Ghandi's ashes are at the Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles. These were the only ashes allowed outside of India when he died.
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In 1919, Boston had a molasses disaster. 2 million gallons of crude molasses burst from a tank and pushed its way through the neighborhood and city. It killed at least 21 people and took weeks to clean up.
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The "largest" city in the United States is Juneau, Alaska. It covers about 3,000 square miles. That's larger than the state of Delaware. In case you are wondering, Jacksonville, Florida is the largest in the lower 48 at just over 800 square miles.
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The California grizzly bear is the state's official animal. However, in 1953 when it was named, it had already become extinct. The last known California grizzly to have been seen was killed in 1922.
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Venus Fly Traps only live in the wild in the Carolinas and nowhere else in the world.
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Not only was Ronald Reagan the oldest person ever elected president at age of 69, he has lived longer than any former president ever has, and has died at the age of 93. We will love you dearly, Mr. President!
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94.
Francis Scott Key, who penned the Star Spangled Banner, was a practicing lawyer. His sister, Anne Key, married Roger Brooke Taney, who later would be the Chief Justice that gave the decision in the Dred Scott case.
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93.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally named Michael, like his father. When Jr. was 5, dad changed both their names to Martin.
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92.
Amelia Earhart designed her own line of clothes that were sold all over the United States.
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91.
Degas, the great French painter, lived in New Orleans for one year, 1872-1873.
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90.
Calvin Coolidge had 2 pet racoons.
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89.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
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88.
President James Garfield devised an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and piblished it in 1876. He once taught math at Hiram College.
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87. Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
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President William H. Taft had quite a second career. 9 years after his presidency, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Harding. Taft was also the first president to submit a national budget and set a precedent by doing so.
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85.
Gen. Robert E. Lee married a relative of George Washington, Mary Ann Randolph Custis. She owned a plantation called "Arlington." They lived there 30 years until Gen. Lee resigned his commission to avoid fighting against his home state. The Lees vacated the property in 1861. Union troops occupied it and 200 acres were set aside to bury fallen Union soldiers. Today over 250,000 war dead are buried there. Now of course, it is known as Arlington National Cemetery.
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In the middle of the Mojave Desert in California, sits a lone telephone booth, 50 miles from Interstate 15, and basically in the middle of nowhere. Nobody seems to remember when and why it was built. Years ago miners who worked nearby used it. Today you can get to it on dirt roads. It has a world-wide cult following now, with people from all over the world calling and visiting it. Nicknamed the Mojave Desert Phone Booth, it's number is: (760)733-9969. (*Note: This telephone apparently has been torn down.)
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83.
A mechanical engineer invented a device in the 1870's to oil train wheels while the train kept running. It was called a lubricator. He made several others for various machines. His name was Elijah McCoy, and imitators followed. These imitations did not work as well, and people coined the phrase, "The Real McCoy" to denote the originals. What is so amazing about this fact? He was born to a runaway slave family. That's right, The Real McCoy was an African-American!
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82.
Immigrants being awed by the Statute of Liberty is a tale that has been romanticized over the years. This was a view of richer passengers.
The truth is, most immigrants who came here by ship near the turn of the century were very poor. As a result, they traveled below deck with hardly any view at all. The first thing most of them remember is being herded like cattle onto Ellis Island.
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A town called Terminus was founded in Georgia in 1837 because it was the end of a railroad line. This town was made into Marthasville in 1843. What is this "town" called today? Since 1845 it has been called Atlanta, of course.
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The original bell, now referred to as the Liberty bell, was cast in London and came to this shore in 1752. It cracked a month later and was recast twice. The time and place of the current crack is actually unknown.
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Contrary to many people, no star on the flag is specifically representing any one state. In fact, no law exists as to how they are even to be arranged.
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A redwood tree in California has been dubbed the Tallest Living Thing. It is about 367 feet high and resides in Montgomery Woods State Reserve. It is now taller than the previous "Tallest" tree because it was damaged in a storm and is now about 10 feet shorter.
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July 4, 1776, is the "official" date when the country was born, but actually was not one country until 1788. (I'll let you find out why!)

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Martin Van Buren was the first president born in America after it declared its independence from England. So, he was actually the first president born in the United States, the country.

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75.
Edgar Allan Poe was once an army cadet at West Point.

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The first American poet to achieve any notoriety was an African female slave named Phillus Wheatly. One of her poems was first published when she was 13. She wrote a poem about George Washington and later met him. She died tragically at the age of 30 in 1784.

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73.
Ben Franklin composed his own epitaph when he was 22 years old.

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72.b
Charles Lindbergh was not the first person to fly across the Atlantic. He was the first to make it alone. 2 Britons did it in 1919, and 2 weeks later U.S. Navy pilots did the same thing! What is amazing is that nobody remembers them!

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Amelia Earhart was the first female to fly across the Atlantic, once as a passenger, and once as a solo pilot. She was the first to fly solo from California to Hawaii, and the first to fly solo from Mexico City to New Jersey.

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Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didn't have a college education.

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During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from gunshots and fighting.

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Maine is the only state in the lower 48 that touches only one other state.

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Long before the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay became a prison, it was used as a military fort. Shortly prior to this, the first light house located on the West Coast was built here in 1854.

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In 1924, 14 buffalo were taken to Catalina Island off the coast of California.They were used in a movie, "The Vanishing American." The buffalo were left behind, the herd grew larger, and today about 250 still roam free on the island. During later years, the population has been "controlled".

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66.
In 1940, Maurice and Richard McDonald opened a barbecue car-hop type restaurant located in San Bernardino, Ca. Shortly after W.W.II, they paired the menu down to offer burgers, fries, and shakes. Ray Croc, a restaurant appliance salesman, was baffled as to why they needed so many milkshake makers. He found out soon enough. Franchise rights were sold in 1955, and Ray Croc opened one up in Des Plaines, Ill. This was his first, but actually the 9th McDonalds. And the rest, as they say, is history. A museum has recently opened up at the original location-14th and E streets in San Bernardino.

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Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, had visited Hawaii and became aware of its beauty. He lived most of his life on the East Coast, however. When he was ill and weeks away from dying, he checked himself out of a New York hospital and traveled to Hawaii. He made plans for his burial, and when he died he was buried at a site on Maui. (Yes he is still there today.)

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64.
Los Angeles was not as "tall" as other large cites, and sprawls for miles. One reason is that before 1957, there was a law against any building having more than 13 stories. They were afraid of earthquakes. City Hall, built in 1927, was the lone exception. This is the building that dominates the skyline in the old Dragnet and Superman TV series. Today, it seems quite hidden.

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63.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are 140 towns and cities in the U.S. that have the word "Christmas" in their names.

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General Motors, in 1954, became the first corporation in the U.S. to have $1 billion in net income.

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The Poinsettia plant was named after Joel Poinsett, the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the early 1800's. He "discovered" them in Mexico in 1825.

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In 1971, cigarette ads were banned from television in the U.S.

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The largest free-swinging bell will be located in Kentucky. It is being cast in France and will weigh 33 tons. It is for a monument to the new millennium.

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The first two navel orange trees in the U.S. were from Brazil and planted in Riverside, California, about 1875. Virtually all navel oranges grown in the U.S. are offspring from these trees. One of the original trees was replanted by Teddy Roosevelt in 1903 but died. The other is still alive today in a park in Riverside!

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The first holiday celebrated nation wide in the U.S. was the 100th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration, April 30,1889.

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You don't need to travel out of the country to see one of Egypt's ancient ruins. A 3,000 year old obelisk, named Cleopatra's Needle is located in New York's Central Park. Stands about 66 feet tall, weighs somewhere near 220 tons. It was given as a gift of friendship in 1879. Its "sister" is in London. It was a "monumental" task to bring it here!

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John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents.

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The largest oil-producing field in the lower 48 states is in Taft, California.

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The spillway over Shasta Dam in Redding, California creates the world's largest man-made waterfall at 438 feet.

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The crookedest street in the world is Snake Alley, located in Burlington, Iowa.

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The first motel was built in San Luis Obispo, California during the 1920's when the Motor Inn merged the two words, motor and hotel. It is still there today!

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50.
Japan sent bombs aboard balloons to the United States during World War II. Dozens of them actually landed, doing some damage. A family in Oregon was actually killed by one in 1944. There might be more just laying around undiscovered! This story is perhaps the most amazing here!

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The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

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Boulder City, Nevada, is the only place left in the state where gambling is illegal. The government did not want workers on the Hoover Dam to gamble their money away.

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47.
All banks in the U.S. were closed during the week of March 5th - 12th, 1933. This was to keep scared people from taking all their money out.

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The deadliest hurricane in the U.S. hit Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. There is no exact count , but estimates are between 6,000 and 10,000 people were killed.

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45.
The 30's gangster Machine Gun Kelly gave the FBI the nickname "G-Men."

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44.
The first gold rush in the United States happened in Dahlonega, Georgia, 1828.

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Before 1913, the U.S. had no income tax. The 16th Amendment was needed so the government could do what they wanted to with the money.

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42.
Iced tea was first served at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. A British businessman wanted to increase tea sales in America.

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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

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40.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first known carrier of typhoid fever in the U.S. She was confined to a hospital the last 20 years of her life because she refused to stop working as a cook. She died in 1938.

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39.
President John Tyler was aboard the USS Princeton when a gun exploded. It killed 8 people including the man who would have been his future father-in-law. John Tyler was also the first president to get married while in office.

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38.
The London Bridge, built about 160 years ago in London, was transplanted in 1968 to Lake Havasu, Arizona.

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In 1850, the U.S. wanted to build a canal through Nicaragua, not Panama. The French started the Panama Canal, gave up, and sold the rights to the U.S.

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150 residences in New York City got the first televisions in 1936. The first program NBC broadcast to them was a cartoon of Felix The Cat!

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35.
More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state.

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The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, is the world's only reproduction of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.

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Hernando de Soto became the first European to reach the Mississippi River in 1581.

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More than one-fourth of the entire population of Memphis, Tennessee, was wiped out by yellow fever in 1878.

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Cathedral Caverns in Alabama, has what is believed to be the largest stalagmite, named Goliath, as well as the largest cave opening and cavern room in the world.

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In the 1930's, the U.S. government sent farmers from the midwest to "colonize" the Matanusk Valley in Alaska. It proved a success and today that region is perhaps the only important agricultural area in the state.

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The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

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General Ulysses S. Grant's real name was Hiram.

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Virginia was once one state. People in the western half did not want to secede. So, West Virginia was "admitted" to the union in 1863. The other half, still named Virginia became a member of the confederate states.

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US Highway 550, near Durango and Silverton, Colorado, is called the Million Dollar Highway because it was paved with low grade gold ore in the road bed.

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The oldest capital city in the U.S. is Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1610.

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Grand Canyon of the Snake River, Idaho, is deeper than the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

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Blackbeard, the infamous pirate, was killed in an inlet near Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in 1718.

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George Washington was in command of the first U.S. "navy," created in 1775. It started with 4 ships. The ships were sold after the war and the "real" navy began in 1798.

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The 33rd president was Harry S. Truman. What is his middle name? His parents were going to give him the name Shippe or Solomon, the names of his grandfathers. They could not agree, so they gave him just an initial, "S."

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20.
In 1918 a flu epidemic killed 548,000 people in the U.S.

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The tallest point in Florida is only 345 feet.

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Ever hear of the American Girl Guides ? Probably not. They are now known as the Girl Scouts.

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Ford Motor Company paid its auto workers $5 per day in 1914.

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American Indians were not made citizens of the U.S. until congress acted in 1924.

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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, everyone knows that. But did you know that he was almost the first man "lost" in space ? He was aboard Gemini 8 when it began spinning out of control while attempting a docking maneuver. Armstrong almost blacked out before correcting the problem.

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The last known passenger pigeon, Martha, died in 1914 at a Cincinnati zoo. They were then extinct.

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Peanut butter was invented by the brilliant African-American scientist George Washington Carver. (1864-1943)

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Zamboni machines, the ice rink resurfacers, were invented and still being manufactured near Los Angeles, California. Sonja Henie had one made for her.

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Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.

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1816 has been called the "Year Without Summer." Canada and the northeastern U.S. experienced cold and snow throughout the summer months. An erupting volcano in the Dutch East Indies was to blame.

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The tomato was put "on trial" on September 25, 1820 in Salem, New Jersey. In front of a courthouse, Robert Johnson ate a basket of tomatoes to prove they were not poisonous. The crowd waited for him to keel over dead. He never did.

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The streets in Virginia City, Nevada, were once unknowingly paved with silver ore. When the locals found out what it was, they tore up the streets in a frenzy in less than 2 days.

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The first rockets in America were deployed by the British against Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. This attack was witnessed by Francis Scott Key who immortalized them in what is now our national anthem.

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President Clinton is listed as the 41st president, but only 40 men have held the office. Why? Grover Cleveland held office during 2 nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president. Incidentally, his full name is Stephen Grover Cleveland.
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The Missouri River is 2,466 miles long and the Mississippi River is 2,348 miles. Why is the Mississippi called our longest river? The Missouri is not continuous. More correctly, the Mississippi should be referred to as the longest continuous river.
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In 1811, earthquakes hit an area near Tiptonville, Tennessee, and created what was to become Reelfoot Lake. It is 14 miles long.
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The United States captured Mexico City in 1847.
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. This was 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Roger Sherman, was the only shoemaker to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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