Place Facts About United States

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states where it is illegal to pump your own gas.

Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state.

In the U.S., about 17% of what you pay at the gas pump goes to taxes, combining federal and state fuel taxes that fund road infrastructure.

There's a city named 'Licking' and a town named 'Butts' in the state of Missouri.

In the U.S., the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, students attend school for around 245 days per year.

When an EF-5 tornado leveled Joplin, Missouri in 2011, 203 people were inside Walmart Store #59. Employees had rehearsed a severe-weather plan just a month earlier and executed it precisely - rushing customers to the reinforced back as the walls came down. 200 of the 203 walked out alive. Across the street at Home Depot, 8 perished when tilt-up concrete walls collapsed. Same storm, same street, very different plan.

The U.S. Capitol has run its own private underground subway since March 1909. The original cars were lemon-yellow Studebakers that held eight senators and took just 45 seconds to cover a 760-foot tunnel. It still runs today - and the public cannot get on without a congressional escort.