You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

America does not entirely belong to Americans. Foreign investors own 27.3 million acres of U.S. farmland, an area about the size of Virginia.

[Lee Stewart]

The U.S. was the first nation to use the title of "President" for its head of state.

[Lee Stewart]

There are an estimated 75.8 million dogs in the U.S., more than double the number in Brazil, the country with the second most dogs.

[Lee Stewart]

Though the U.S. is home to less than 5% of the world's population, it is responsible for nearly 25% of global economic output.

[Lee Stewart]

The U.S. became the world's largest petroleum producer in the last 10 years. The U.S. produced 15.6 million barrels of petroleum per day in 2017, 3.5 million more than Saudi Arabia, the world's second-biggest petroleum producer.

[Lee Stewart]

There are more guns than people in the United States -- about 101 for every 100 people, according to some estimates. The country with the next highest ownership rate is Serbia, where there are 58 guns for every 100 people.

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Some 45.2 million Americans identify as ancestrally German, more than any other nationality.

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The typical wage or salary worker in the U.S. has been with their current employer for 4.2 years.

[Lee Stewart]

The government chose to color U.S. currency green as an anti-counterfeiting strategy. When the color was adopted in the 19th century, cameras could only take black and white photographs, making imitation bills difficult to produce.

[Lee Stewart]

Over half of the U.S. population lives in just nine states -- California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina.