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FACTS ABOUT USA 7



- 75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfast.

- 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.

- The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

- Every day, over five billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United States.

- The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school buses.

- In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.

- The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.

- Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA.

- According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.

- Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.


- Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.

- Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

- German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America.

- In total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per year.

- Annually, fires that occur at home kill more Americans than all natural disasters combined.

- The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year.

- Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

- Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.

- By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years.

- Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

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