2/9/14

The United States


We are proud to be Americans! In honor of the United States of America, here are 10 amazing facts!

  1. The smallest state is Rhode Island coming in at 1,545 square miles and Alaska is the largest coming in at 663,268 square miles.
  2. Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
  3. The original name of the city Atlanta was "Terminus".
  4. There are three towns in the US that are named "Santa Claus".
  5. The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.
  6. Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
  7. The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.
  8. The tallest mountain in the world is located in the United States Mauna Kea, located in Hawaii
  9. The first American cookbook was published in Hartford, CT in 1796.
  10. The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California.  But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

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