There are millions of random facts about The United States of America which you probably don’t know.
There are also a large number of facts that you do know, but don’t know that you know until a situation suddenly arises when you find yourself producing an answer to an unexpected question.
The human brain has an amazing capacity for storing information. Some of it obviously relevant to your day-day living, but much of it lurking somewhere in the deepest recesses of the mind, to be drawn upon when needed.
Our Life Daily team made this small selection on a very random basis, covering a number of different and unconnected elements.
Test your knowledge! Browse through our list and checkout how many of these random facts you actually know. It will only take a few moments.
Start now:
1. The very first fast food chain to introduce a drive up service window was Jack-In-the-Box in 1951.
2. Georgia is the only U.S. state named after a king – England’s King George II.
3. Chicago, Illinois, nickname ‘The Windy City’, has nothing to do with weather but refers to Chicago’s blustery and ‘windy’ politicians of an earlier era.
4. The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island are both in New Jersey.
5. The Cincinnati, Ohio airport is in Kentucky.
6. You can snow ski and snowboard in Hawaii.
7. New Hampshire has the highest per capita consumption of spirits – 3.6 gallons per person annually, on average.
8. North Dakota has the highest per capita consumption of beer.
9. Residents of the District of Columbia have the highest per capita consumption of wine.
10. Bourbon is the official spirit of the United States by Act of Congress in 1964.
11. Chicago, Illinois has the most bars per capita of any major city.
12. Twenty percent of homes in the USA have only cell phones, no land lines.
13. Seventeen percent of homes have land lines but no cell phones.
14. Six in 10 households have both land lines and cell phones.
15. One in 50 households has no phones at all.
16. Wal-Mart is the second largest employer is the U.S. Only the U.S. Government has more employees.
17. The average length of a player’s career in the NFL is 3 ½ years.
18. The very first college football game was played on November 6, 1869. Rutgers University defeated Princeton University by 6 to 4.
19. The greatest defeat in the history of college football was on October 7, 1916. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the Cumberland College Bulldogs of Tennessee by a score of 222 to 0.
20. Annually, more steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than is used to make automobiles.
21. One in Seven, or almost 14% of adult Americans are illiterate.
22. Eighteen percent, or almost 1 in 5 married couples in the U.S., fail to reach their 5th wedding anniversary.
23. One in every 100 American Adults is now in jail or prison (91% male, 9% female).
24. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated one in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
So, how did you score?
Honestly, how many of these random facts about America did you know?
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