Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
17
In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
16
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
65
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
75
The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
4