Based on area, the Pentagon is the largest office building in the world. It has 17 miles of corridors and twice the space as the Empire State Building.
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There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire landmass of North and South America in one foot of liquid.
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Just under 70 percent of firefighters in the United States are volunteers.
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America sells enough pizza every day to cover 100 acres.
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Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to own a patent and a saloon. His patent was for a device to lift boats over sandbars.
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The American flag’s official colors are “Old Glory Red,” “White,” and “Old Glory Blue.”
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The government is still paying a pension on behalf of a Civil War veteran–to his 85-year-old daughter.
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Even though English is the most commonly spoken language in the United States, no official national language exists.
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Although Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., it is technically the 47th state because Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit it to the Union until 1953.
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The American one-dollar bill contains several hidden images, including a spider in the upper right-hand corner.
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The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island.
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Pensacola, Florida is actually the oldest city in the US. It was settled in 1559 by Don Tristan de Luna.
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The President of the United States is statistically the deadliest job in the U.S. Of the 45 presidents who’ve held the post, four have been assassinated in office. That’s a rate of roughly 9 percent (or about one in ten) killed on the job.
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The largest air force in the world is the U.S. Air Force, and the second-largest air force is the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combined.
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