FACTS ABOUT USA 3
- Atlanta International Airport is the world’s busiest airport.
- California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.
- During WW2, the Japanese invaded Alaska, and more Americans were killed or wounded defending Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.
- The first person to become president who was born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter.
- Wyoming was the first place in the US to allow women to hold office and vote.
- According to the CDC, there are 19 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States every single year.
- One–fourth of Americans believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
- In America, you can drive a car when you are 16, vote and own a gun when you are 18, and buy alcohol when you are 21.
- The USA is a top producer of corn, soy beans, rice, and wheat, with the Great Plains labeled as the breadbasket of the world for its tremendous agricultural output.
- Benjamin Franklin thought that the wild turkey should be the national bird of the USA.
- John Wayne and Chuck Norris are honorary Texas Rangers. The Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency in North America with statewide jurisdiction.
- There are more than 70,000 miles of highway in Texas, of which 40,985 are paved farm and ranch roads. Along Texas roads, there are more than a million signs and markers. Texas uses 1.6 million gallons of white and yellow paint each year to paint stripes along its highways.
- The highest temperature ever recorded in Texas was 120° F in Seymour on August 12, 1936. The lowest temperature ever recorded was -23° F at Tulia in 1899 and at Seminole on February 8, 1933.
- The world’s largest (and oldest) rattlesnake roundup is held every March in Sweetwater, Texas.
- In the United States, there is little difference between the terms “college” and “university.” However, the term “college” in other countries, such as Canada, refers to a junior college or trade college, where as a “university” is larger, more research focused, and usually contains multiple colleges.
- Typically, the worst paying majors are Social Work, Theology, Elementary Education, Music, Spanish, Horticulture, Education, Fine Arts, Hospitality/Tourism, and Drama.
- The majors with the best pay include Engineering, Economics, and Physics.
- Harvard Stadium was the first reinforced concrete structure in the world.
- At Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, students with a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 30 or higher are required to take a physical education class before they are allowed to graduate.
- The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is currently investigating whether colleges are discriminating in favor of boys in order to achieve gender balance. Colleges have found that when a college has 60% girls, high school boys stop applying there.
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