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Facts About The United States of America (USA)
Most American students get about three months of summer vacation!
Many American families eat dinner together between 6:00 and 7:30 PM!
American students usually start kindergarten when they’re 5 years old!
Americans eat about 50 billion hamburgers every year!
The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in California in 1940!
Chocolate chip cookies were invented by accident in Massachusetts in 1938!
The first successful American pizza chain started in Kansas!
The average American eats about 5 to 11 pounds (2.3 to 5 kg) of ketchup every year!
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches became popular during World War II!
The Caesar salad was invented in Mexico by an American chef!
Americans invented the airplane, light bulb, telephone, and many other important things!
The first email was sent in the USA in 1971!
American scientists helped create GPS, which helps people navigate all over the world!
The first successful artificial heart was created in the USA in 1982!
The first voice recording was made in 1860 by a French inventor living in America!
Americans invented blue jeans, T-shirts, and zippers!
The first successful electric car was built in America in 1890!
The first Olympics held in America were in St. Louis in 1904!
Surfing became popular in America after Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku introduced it in the early 1900s!
One of America’s first playgrounds, called the Sharon Quarters for Children, opened in 1888 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. People often say it’s the first built just for kids to play on!
The USA has 63 national parks, protecting millions of acres of land!
Denali National Park in Alaska is larger than the state of New Hampshire!
The first Earth Day was celebrated in America in 1970!
The USA has more than 250,000 rivers, flowing for over 3.5 million miles!
Jazz music was invented in New Orleans in the early 1900s!
The first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound, “Steamboat Willie,” was released in the United States in 1928.
The first American museum opened in Charleston, South Carolina in 1773!
Country music got its start in Bristol, Tennessee, known as the “Birthplace of Country Music”!
The first American movie theater opened in 1896 in New Orleans!
Hawaii is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands!
Texas was an independent country for nine years before joining the United States!
California has the highest and lowest points in the continental United States!
Alaska has more coastline than all other U.S. states combined!
Florida has the longest coastline of any state in the continental United States!
Michigan is divided into two parts connected by one of the world’s longest suspension bridges!
Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area!
Four states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) meet at a single point called Four Corners!
The Iroquois Confederacy’s government system influenced the U.S. Constitution!
Native Americans domesticated corn from a wild grass over 10,000 years ago!
Native Americans invented snow goggles, syringes, and hammocks!
There are over 574 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States today!
Many American cities, including Chicago, Seattle, and Miami, have names that come from Native American languages!
The Cherokee people created their own written alphabet in the 1800s!
Native Americans were using sign language to communicate between tribes long before European contact!
The Pueblo people built apartment-like homes in cliff walls that still stand today!
Americans have put 12 people on the moon — more than any other country!
The first animal sent into space by the USA was a monkey named Albert II in 1949!
The world’s first weather satellite was launched by the USA in 1960!
American scientists have sent rovers to Mars that have been exploring since 2004!
