50 Fascinating Facts About the USA That You Never Knew | Irish Girl Reacts

Can I come visit you, whoever you are, unless you're a bad person? Strange, at some point, doesn't it stop being a snowflake and become a very pretty piece of ice that fell from the sky? So today we are going. be watching a video called The Essay You Never Knew and it's on a channel called The World According to Briggs that I've

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seen before What is the world like according to you Mr. Brakes or Miss breaks or Master breaks or lady breaks or me? I enjoy learning, growing and educating myself in a way that I feel like I

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did in school.

I learned a lot of things in school, don't get me wrong, but my passion for learning certainly came about independently and I firmly believe that the school system should change to adapt. different types of learners, let me know below in the comments, if you agree, some people are visual. Students, some people listen. Students, some people need to see things that are the same as the visuals anyway, if you like me and stuff, check out patreon.com. Jennings and/or channel membership, you will see more of my videos. I'm a furry little dog, oh who was here but now he's there, you can't see him now.

I wonder if it's actually things I don't know because it says you never

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and sometimes we all click bait, you know, a little click bait, I never heard anyone, well, don't quote me on that, maybe it will. made today, we're looking at 50 strange or little-known

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about the United States before we get there. Regarding this, I have a side note for you: there are some extra strange things that have happened in this country that I had to eliminate. Yes, I went down a long, twisting Google Rabbit Hole researching this video. There were a total of about 20 things that I finished on the cutting room floor, so to speak, that would have definitely demonetized me.

Today's video is fun. Some of these things you may know, but I'm sure most of them you don't, but I guarantee you will find them. quite a few that are really interesting, got it, get it, let's take a look number one, the state of Alaska is big, in fact, it's so big that it can fit the entire state of Texas inside it twice number two, there's a city in Pennsylvania They call sex number three the largest frying pan in the world is in Rose Hill North Carolina and they actually use it to cook from time to time it's not just a fiberglass frying pan that they put up as decoration number four the first American flag was sewn by Betsy Ross who was only paid one dollar and 25 cents for her work and even by today's standards it wasn't much in today's money.

She was paid thirty-four dollars number five. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote, it was in 1869. number six, there is a town in Arizona called Nothing number seven, the highest mountain in the United States is Denali, it is actually the mountain peak tallest in North America with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level if you look at the base of the peak because it is land. which is above sea level it's about 18,000 feet number eight there's a giant ball of twine in cawker city kansas it weighs over 17,000 pounds like most of you my first thought was why I mean isn't that a big thing happening? although in America, small towns create I don't know if it's a small moment, but times create bigger random things or smaller random things just so people like to come visit moments like that, it was a thing of the Route 66, so no.

Crazy, let's say number nine, the United States is the only country to have landed humans on the Moon. Number 10, the state of Montana has three times as many cows as people. Number 11, the shortest river in the world is the Roe River in Montana. The 201-foot-long Statue of Liberty, number 12, was a gift from France that arrived in New York City in 1885. Here's the strange thing: It appeared in the United States in 214 boxes. Putting it together was going to cost a lot of money. New York City didn't have it, there were at least five other major cities that wanted it and had the money to put it in.

New York City was about to lose him, so he was left in boxes on Bedlow Island. Giant journalist Joseph Pultzer started a fundraiser. campaign that got the money to put Lady Liberty where she is to this day in 1956. Congress changed the name of Bedlow Island to Liberty Island 13. There is a town in Nebraska called monowa and it only has one person, yes it is a real city, it is incorporated number 14. Can I come visit you person, whoever you are, unless you are a bad person? I want to go there. I feel like I get there and then I would say there's nothing to do here and I'd be surprised if America has the. largest number of billionaires in the world number 15 the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees Fahrenheit that is in California's death valley and was in 1913. number 16 the longest suspension bridge in the United States is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City, spanning more than 13,000 feet, connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island.

I was going to do one of my little things where I like to give you the wrong answer, like I was going to say it connects Staten Island to Queens, but New Yorkers miss it. If you make that mistake, even if I later say I'm joking, they still won't recover. 17 The United States has the largest prison population in the world. 18. The first McDonald's restaurant opened in San Bernardino, California, in 1940. It was simply a single location, it was not until 1955 when businessman Ray Kroc got involved and began the path to what is today 19. the state of Maine has the largest toothpick manufacturing plant in the world how to sleep tonight number 20 the largest diamond in the world was found in the South African mine and was then cut and polished in New York City 21 The United States has the largest economy in the world world 22 the first successful flight in a powered airplane was made by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

The strange thing is that it was not in Kitty Hawk, it was south of Kitty Hawk in a place called Kill Devil Hills and the another strange thing that most people think it was just a glider, no it had a 23 engine, the biggest paintball in the world. it's in Alexandria Indiana, you know why because that's where it should be 24 the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by the Colorado River yes, millions of years 25 the first public library in the United States opened in Boston in 1854 26 the first successful library The heart transplant was performed in the United States in 1967.

I didn't know it was that far back, I thought for sure it was going to be the 1980s. 27 The state of California has more residents than the entire country of Canada. They have more maple syrup than California 28. There's a town in Iowa called What Cheer and it's a fitting name because there's no cheer here, it's just boarded up buildings 29 The United States consumes more chocolate per capita than any other country 30 The tallest waterfall in the United States is Yosemite Falls in California, falling 2,400 feet 31 The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere is at the Wheaton Metro Station in Maryland number 32 The United States is home to more serial killers than any other. another nation, so much more.

I don't know if it's something in our water or what's going on, but it seems like we always have a new serial killer every two years. I mean we have some that are working all the time, that sounds great but yeah it always seems like every few years we get a new serial killer that's been at it for like 10 years, yeah I think maybe that has to do with it. with the fact that since you are like a body of earth it is easier to make a body disappear and also I feel that because there are so many people and so many different states with different laws, it is easier to go unnoticed, whereas let's say you killed someone in Ireland and it happened that we had a serial killer in the triangle story missing for another day, but it's much harder to think that no one will walk here or you know there's less place to put a body because there are people around because it's a place smaller and everyone knows everyone, so like 25 people saying hmm, I was acting a little strange while in America.

I think there are more lonely people, maybe you could live a life in America without talking to someone for weeks, no one would notice. I guess that could happen anywhere foreign. The first United States Capitol was New York City. 34. The United States has the largest in the world. The military budget is over 800 billion at the moment. Next in line is China and they estimate theirs is around 250 billion and India is chasing them and has less than 100 billion 35 there is a city in Oregon called boring 36 The United States has more tornadoes than any other country in the world each year 37 the highest capital city in the United States is Santa Fe, New Mexico, at an elevation of 7,198 feet 38 the world's largest recorded snowflake fell in Montana in 1887.

It measured 15 inches wide and eight inches deep thickness at At some point it stops being a snowflake and becomes a nice piece of ice that fell from the sky. 39 The United States has the most airports. 40 The world's first drive-in theater opened in New Jersey in 1933. 41 The first person to receive a social security check was Ida May Fuller, who received 22.54 on January 31, 1940. 42 The first televised presidential debate was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. 43 The United States railroad network is made up of nearly 140,000 miles of track and more than 100,000 bridges 44 Paul Guidel Jr. served the longest prison sentence of any inmate in the United States United 68 years 257 days now there is another guy who spent more time in prison but he had been on parole for a few years so Guidel spent his time continuously, even refusing to leave at one point yes they gave him parole and he refused to leave He stayed six more years and finally went to a nursing home. 45 The first car accident in the United States occurred in New York.

York City in 1891. 46 The Louisiana Purchase in which the United States purchased large amounts of land from France cost only three cents per acre 47 The Yuma Arizona High School team is called the Criminals The school was established in 1909 The Yuma High's mascot arrived when the original was created. The school building was destroyed by fire in 1910, the school then used the Yuma Territorial Prison, which had been closed for the next three years, classes were held in cell blocks and assemblies took place in the prison hospital because of this and the fact that a phoenix was once called a group of criminals by a newspaper because they thought they had cheated in a football match.

The name stuck 48 The United States has the highest rate of opioid addiction in the world 49 In 1893 there were only two cars in the state of Kentucky, they had a Head-on collision and number 50, the United States has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy among developed countries. I mentioned that in a video a few years ago and one guy argued it was because of bikinis, yeah, teenage

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s swim, swimsuits get them pregnant, uh, us. I also have bikinis in Europe, there towards the end? Opioid addiction is interesting because I used opioids when I had knee surgery last year and I didn't like them, they made me violently ill.

I get the feeling that different people have different reactions to things, but for me, oh, the birds weren't that. There are many other things. I could get hooked on chocolate. I'm with you. I didn't know you were the biggest consumers of chocolate in the world. They would think it would be like Switzerland or me. I'm like an American when it comes to chocolate Yum Yum Yum give it all to me, there were some

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in there that I thought I didn't know for sure the fact, but then when you said them, they made a lot of sense. video thank you very much to the world I learned many things and things