Five Fun Facts about America
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Issue #187 Friday Funday December 2, 2022
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Here’s today’s post:
Sometimes it feels that everything is all doom and gloom in this country, and on many days, it is.
In this shorter-than-usual post, let’s take a few minutes to have some fun.
There are some fun and interesting things about America that can make us all laugh.
Here are five of them:
Americans eat about 100 acres of pizza every day. Every year, Americans buy about 300 billion pizzas, and the biggest spike in pizza sales are during the Super Bowl. About 93% of Americans have eaten pizza within the last month.
Abraham Lincoln is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. Ol’ Abe, before he became president, won 299 of the 300 matches he fought as an amateur wrestler. Lincoln also signed legislation to create the Secret Service just before he left to attend a play at the Ford Theatre. But the original mission of the S.S. was to combat widespread currency fraud. The S.S. didn’t start to protect the president until 1901.
The U.S. Government poisoned people during Prohibition. To discourage drinking, the United States government ordered the poisoning of the industrial alcohols used by bootleggers. By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program may have killed more than 10,000 people.
Uncle Sam was a real person. Samuel Wilson was a meatpacker in Troy, New York, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War. In 1812, when he became the official meat inspector for the northern army, his coworkers gave him the nickname “Uncle Sam” because he was so good-natured. When Sam started inspecting meat for the troops during the War of 1812, the barrels were stamped “U.S.” for “United States.” However, the soldiers started joking that “U.S.” stood for “Uncle Sam” and that is how Uncle Sam came to be related to all United States military items.
The Liberty Bell weighs 2,080 pounds. The Liberty Bell was actually built in 1751 to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the 1701 Charter of Privileges written by William Penn and was the original Constitution of Pennsylvania. “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,” a Bible verse, is written on the Bell. The large crack in the Bell happened when it was struck on George Washington’s birthday in 1846. Since then, the Bell is only tapped, not rung. The Bell’s strike note is E-flat.
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