FACTS ABOUT USA 5
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
- About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
- There are more than 40 million Americans that have "chronic halitosis," which is bad breath that never goes away.
- Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.
- In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt.
- In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built.
- In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
- In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year.
- There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
- U.S. colleges with the lowest acceptance rates, in order, are Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA (4.0%); Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, TX (4.5%); Rust College in Holly Springs, MS (7.6%); Juilliard in New York, NY (7.6%); and Harvard University in Cambridge, MA (7.9%).
- In hard times, early colleges in the U.S. were forced to accept payments such as cotton, sheep, pewter, and food rather than hard currency. Most U.S. colleges were constantly on the verge of insolvency.
- The number one country of origin of foreign college students in the United States is India, followed by China and South Korea.
- Harvard receives the largest financial endowments of any institution in the world at $26 billion.
- Yellowstone experiences approximately 1,000 to 3,000 earthquakes annually.
- Yellowstone has the world’s largest collection of geysers with approximately 10,000 thermal features and more than 300 geysers.
- Yellowstone Lake is the largest lake at high elevation (over 7,000 feet [2134 m]) in North America.
- On January 15, 1883, Henry Teller, then Secretary of the Interior, officially prohibited hunting within Yellowstone.
- Geologist Bob Christiansen uncovered with NASA high-altitude photos the ancient, massive Yellowstone caldera (created by an earth-shattering “super volcano” eruption 640,000 years ago), which spreads out 45 miles (72 km) by 30 miles (48 km), over half of Yellowstone’s area.
- The world’s largest log cabin building, Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Inn, was built during the bitter winter of 1903-1904 and was designed by architect Robert C. Reamer.
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