21 Interesting Facts About The United States Of America
Featured 07/04/2015
Portions of knowledge to better your fourth of July.
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3. An American soldier ran across the border to North Korea in 1962 and has been living there ever since.
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8. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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11. U.S. former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other, on the 4th of July in 1826.
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15. The launch code for all U.S. Minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code: 00000000.
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19. In WWII, the U.S. and New Zealand secretly tested "tsunami bombs" designed to destroy coastal cities.
20. Gerald Ford was the only to have served as both U.S. President and Vice President without being elected to either position.
21. The U.S. has 19 aircraft carriers, compared to the rest of the world's 12 aircraft carriers combined.
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