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FACTS ABOUT USA 6



- The tallest predictable geyser at Yellowstone is the Grand Geyser, which blows on average twice a day, for 12–20 minutes in a series of powerful bursts climbing to 200 feet (61 m).

- The world’s tallest active geyser, Steamboat, can erupt to more than 300 feet (90 m), showering its Yellowstone viewers with mineral-rich water.

- The 51 separate fires of 1988 employed 25,000 people to battle the blazes and cost $120 million to combat. Miraculously, only one life was lost. However, 36% of Yellowstone National Park—some 800,000 acres (1,250 square miles)—burned in those fires.

- Yellowstone Lake is the home to the largest population of cutthroat trout in North America.

- For years, anglers dipped their fresh-caught trout into the Fishing Cone hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, cooking a meal on the spot. Fishing in the Fishing Cone was banned after an angler was burnt by an eruption in the 1920s.

- U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.

- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

- In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

- In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

- In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married.

- Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash.

- Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

- Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

- Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930. 

- The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.

- In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.

- The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes.

- Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

- Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.

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