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If you cut down a cactus in Arizona, it can result in a class 4 felony and up to 25 years in prison. 12. Wearing headphones for just an hour can increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
Image credits: RebelGrin #7. TIL in 2010 a doctor and his son just happened to be walking by an apartment building in Paris when a 15-month-old boy fell 80ft (24m) from a seventh floor balcony ...
As of 2018, New York City is the most visited destination in the United States, followed by Los Angeles, Orlando, Las Vegas, and Chicago. [citation needed] Tourists spend more money in the United States than in any other country, but the United States attracts only the third-highest number of tourists, after France and Spain.
The United States government does not have a ministry of culture, but there are a number of government institutions with cultural responsibilities, including the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the Federal Communications Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ...
Image credits: tyrion2024 Many of us can't imagine flying without Ziploc bags filled with our little toiletry bottles. But that was the reality once, and it wasn't 9/11 that forced airlines to ban ...
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Image credits: Flares117 Another interesting fact about the family who couldn't sleep comes from Redditor u/Potatoe_expert.Science writer and author of the book about said family The Family That ...
Image credits: Zahir Khan #11. Some 3,000 years ago, in modern-day Iran, ancient engineers created the Qanat—an ingenious underground system to carry water over long distances.