Description
Do you want to know a lot about the United States of America? Do you like incredible facts – funny and sad, surprising and unbelievable? If your answer is YES, this book is for you. 500 Random Facts about the USA is the first book in the new series Trivia and Facts about the Countries. This book provides an incredible amount of absolutely random facts about the United States of America. The content is unique and family-friendly. Some facts are completely crazy. Some of them are unexpected world records or just interesting things that happened somewhere in the USA centuries or days ago. Some of them are eye-opening statistics that make you think more about your own life and priorities. In any case, all these facts are entertaining, exciting, and fun. And all of them have connection with the USA and its people. The examples of the random facts inside this book: Toilet paper was invented in New York City in 1857 by Joseph Gayetty. In 2016, Statista calculated that 98.98% of Americans use toilet paper. If the state of California was a country, it would have the seventh largest economy in the world. Also, California’s GDP is twice as big as Russia’s GDP. The United States is one of only two countries that do not have paid maternity leave. The second such country is Papua New Guinea. President John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain as it was stolen during his autopsy. and so on… The United States of America is a superstate. Everyone has heard of the American Dream. Millions of talented people want to arrive to the country of Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and to start their own journey. This is the country of opportunities; however nothing is perfect in the world of humans. There are both great and disgusting things and events happening in every corner of the world, and the USA is not an exception. Facts about America will provide you two sides of this coin.