FACTS ABOUT USA 6
- The tallest predictable geyser at Yellowstone is the Grand Geyser, which blows on average twice a day, for 12–20 minutes in a series of powerful bursts climbing to 200 feet (61 m).
- The world’s tallest active geyser, Steamboat, can erupt to more than 300 feet (90 m), showering its Yellowstone viewers with mineral-rich water.
- The 51 separate fires of 1988 employed 25,000 people to battle the blazes and cost $120 million to combat. Miraculously, only one life was lost. However, 36% of Yellowstone National Park—some 800,000 acres (1,250 square miles)—burned in those fires.
- Yellowstone Lake is the home to the largest population of cutthroat trout in North America.
- For years, anglers dipped their fresh-caught trout into the Fishing Cone hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, cooking a meal on the spot. Fishing in the Fishing Cone was banned after an angler was burnt by an eruption in the 1920s.
- U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.
- In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.
- In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married.
- Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash.
- Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
- Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
- Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.
- The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.
- In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.
- The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes.
- Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.
- Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
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