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Twelve Amazing Facts You Never Knew About The United States of America

1. Helicopters only work when piloted by Americans.

2. America is the third-largest country in the world by population, but the largest by total weight.

3. A little-known clause in the U.S. Constitution guarantees all Americans 15-minute snuff breaks while harvesting.

4. Texas is actually twice as large as it appears on maps.

5. The EPA has fined NASA over $45 million since 1969 for littering the moon.

6. Six of the Seven Fast Food Wonders of the World are located in the U.S.

7. America is the world's leading exporter of idealistic young people who want to change the world, and the world's leading importer of disenchanted expatriates who just want a job and a steady paycheck.

8. Due to a mixup in paperwork in 1959, the state of Alaska was mistakenly labeled Hawaii, and the state of Hawaii was mistakenly labeled Alaska.

9. Only four U.S. presidents have ever eaten at Chick-Fil-A (Clinton, W. Bush, HW Bush, and Chester A. Arthur)

10. No U.S. Senator has ever mown a lawn.

11. The creation of the atomic bomb in 1945 was the result of competing Independence Day shows between the neighboring towns of Alamagordo and Truth or Consequences.

12. New York's Central Park is bigger than every country in Europe except Sweden.