Random United States Facts

    35 facts tagged with United States Facts

    The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
    10
    The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
    100
    Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
    76
    50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
    183
    Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
    70
    The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
    36
    The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
    72
    Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
    196