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America Facts
Here are some facts about this great nation:
- Longest continuous string of US Presidents born here
- Most Star Wars movies produced of any country
- Tied for most Space Shuttles invented
- Longer Canadian border than any other country
- Largest Hawaiian Island of any country
- 238 consecutive years of being the USA, the longest active streak
- Highest quality of Chuck Norris facts produced by any country
If you know any other facts, write them in the comments.
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Technically the US has invented 3 space shuttles (the Space Shuttle, SpaceShipOne and X-37). Russia only has 2 (Buran and BOR-4). So, we win.
Most towns named Moscow in the world.
True fact: the only country in the Americas to have been independent longer than it was colony.
Exactly half of our States are larger than the other half.
Freaky.
Criminy. I caught myself thinking “Threepeat!”. Well, only if we have to, I guess.
Longer Canadian border than any other country.
I bet our northern neighbor has a longer Canadian border.
I trusted Mark Wilson but now I being to think that he is as reliable as Jay Carney.
It would not fit.
Continentalist!!!!
BTW, Aloha!
Yesterday I saw this on a t-shirt of a burly man walking into a lumberyard and I hadn’t seen this post yet.
True conservatives still fly the 48 star flag.
Resist change!
I only have 13 stars. Where were you in ’76?
Hedging my bets.
Most flavors of Doritos
Most trailers destroyed by tornadoes
Groucho Marx: four brothers > Karl Marx: three, none who could play the harp
Our nation-hating bloviators would never consider moving anywhere else; other countries’ nation-haters long to move here
Any other country with a feckless crapweasel like James Buchanan as President would do away with the office purely as a preventative measure; America–we elected Abraham Lincoln.
America is home to the world’s newest Hampshire.
When I was a pup we didn’t need ding-dang foreigners to make fun of our music, being self-reliant for that purpose. If we should ever lose the confidence to phrase our anthem as questions, we’re done.
The US has way more Top Ten Country hits than anybody.
Here’s one of ’em, from 1977. Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke are the best duet country music has ever produced, in my opinion:
America is the only country on earth where a man can travel North to South Dakota, East to West Virginia, and South to North Carolina and never get lost.
Even more than: Johnny Cash & June Carter ?
They were living legends, no doubt, but I’ve always had a fondness for the country music of the Urban Cowboy Era (late ’70s and early ’80s). That’s what I grew up listening to! :-)
Bigger than Russia (assuming you don’t count Siberia, and why would you?)
The only country in which its actor president knew more about the constitution than its constitutional law teaching president.
Given that the USA has a lot of real accomplishments, this sort of speculation would seem more appropriate concerning, say, Socialism, or Contemporary Art, or Hillary Clinton.
Well, if we hadn’t added Alaska and Kenya in 1959 we wouldn’t be stuck with Obama, so there’s that.
I don’t count SpaceShipOne because it was only suborbital.
By nature, there are very few words beginning with “sub-” that fit the ethos of America; for example, suboptimal has little use here. Submarine and submariner, in both the naval and baseball senses, are notable exceptions.
Ok, I’ll admit, we’re actually tied with them for longest Canadian border. But the Canadians had every advantage and we still managed a tie. Soccer fans should be ecstatic.
Most Kentucky Derby winners.
Greatest number of VFW halls.
Perfected Bar B Que. And Whiskey. and Cheeseburgers. And Bacon. Which altogether make for a he77 of a meal.
Named a state Minnesota, just because we could.
Yeah, I was always suspicious of them Subarus. Too bad Americans have “a crazy crack-like addiction” to them.
America has the longest string of badasses of any nation. Before Chuck Norris there was John Wayne. Before John Wayne there was Teddy Roosevelt who was so tough that he punched eastern diplomacy so hard that Japan and Russia came to terms. Before Roosevelt we had Grant who was so tough that Lincoln had to keep him inebriated so as to temper his awesomeness.
And before Grant we had Jackson and before him, Washington.
Good observation. Veterans in most other countries must join a VDW (Veterans of Domestic Wars) organization . Those are the wars in which the Americans came in and saved the rear ends of members of VDW organizations (I’m talking to you, France).
This thread reminds me that it’s time to start our own Ricochet chapter of the Americans for Jingoism.