Here is part 4 of Interesting Facts About USA.
1-5 Interesting Facts About USA
1. The Mall of America in Minnesota does not have central heating. Instead, it is heated by solar windows, store electronics, and body heat from shoppers. – Source
2. Pay toilets are virtually unknown in America thanks to a nineteen year-old. – Source
3. When 6-year old Adam Walsh (the son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh) was murdered in 1981, the police investigation was so inept that they lost the bloodstained carpet from the suspect’s Cadillac, the machete used to decapitate Walsh, and eventually, the car itself. – Source
4. The Dickinson High School (North Dakota) athletic teams are known as “The Midgets”. The school considered changing the name but the ‘Little People of America’ stated that they were not offended by it, influencing the school to keep their traditional mascot. – Source
5. Conditions seemed so bleak in America during the Great Depression that people in Cameroon sent $3.77 to New York for food relief. – Source
6-10 Interesting Facts About USA
6. Due to a strange law in America where importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that do not; Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants, they should be exempt from the tax. – Source
7. There are seven times as many people of Irish decent living in America, than in Ireland. – Source
8. George Washington had the public support to become king of America, gave up the power to congress, and was called the greatest man in the world by King George III for doing so. – Source
9. One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” which featured dead people telling the stories of their murders. – Source
10. Benjamin Franklin published a paper where he discovered that America’s population growth was so fast, it would surpass Britain in 100 years. This alarmed British leadership and was a factor in their oppression of the colonies. – Source
11-15 Interesting Facts About USA
11. McCall’s magazine released its first issue in 1873 and was one of America’s oldest and longest running magazines until Rosie O’Donnell took control of it in 2000, renamed it “Rosie”, and by 2002 had officially killed it. – Source
12. Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, while still an independent nation. This means Vermont was both the first state, and the first nation in the Americas to abolish the institution of slavery. – Source
13. Africanized bee, known as killer bees are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped lab quarantine and since then have spread throughout the Americas. – Source
14. The Chinese name for America is Meiguo, which literally means “beautiful country.” – Source
15. There are three power grids in America. One for the West one for the East and one for Texas. – Source
16-20 Interesting Facts About USA
16. The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to gain support of the monarchies of France and Spain, who would not support a rebellion against a legitimate monarchy (England), but they would support America as an independent nation. – Source
17. The U.S. government both subsidizes tobacco and funds the largest anti-smoking campaign in America. – Source
18. There was an epidemic of satanic ritual abuse across America in the 1980s that turned out to be completely imagined. People were recalling memories of sexual abuse and cannibalism that never occurred. – Source
19. America’s Most Wanted once caught a fugitive when the employees at a café gathered to watch a segment about a murdered colleague, then realized that the child molester from another segment of the same episode was in the kitchen as the replacement for the murdered man. – Source
20. Alabama has the most aquatic biodiversity of any place in North America and the Mobile Basin, the most diverse river system in the United States, is known as “the Amazon of America.” – Source
21-25 Interesting Facts About USA
21. Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream. – Source
22. German chocolate cake was invented in America. It is named after the chocolate maker Samuel German. – Source
23. The descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt, once America’s richest man, held a reunion in 1973. Not a single one of them were millionaires. – Source
24. The first 1 million dollar budget movie in America (1916) also featured the first full female nudity in a mainstream film. It was a commercial success, but no copies of it exist. It is a lost movie. – Source
25. In October 2012, Boy Scouts of America was forced to release 20,000 pages of documentation on 1,200 cases of child sex abuse. They had allegedly been helping to cover up about 1/3 of those cases. – Source
