AMERICAN TRIVIA

One-third of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it.

The US flag displays 13 stripes – representing the original 13 states.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Forty thousand Americans are injured by toilets each year.

In 1996, President Clinton passed a law on toilet paper, taxing each roll six cents and increasing the price of the product to 30 cents per roll.

When the divorce rate goes up, toy makers report that the sales of toys also rise.

Every bearded president has been a member of the Republican Party.

Theodore Roosevelt’s wife and mother died on the same day.

You can see five states from the top of the Empire State Building: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

It is estimated that a new lawsuit is filed every 30 seconds in the USA.

There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.

Each year, Americans eat enough peanuts to fill ten 85-storey buildings.

There are approximately 500,000 detectable seismic tremors in California annually.

Twenty-seven per cent of Americans believe we never landed on the moon, while 33 per cent believe God has spoken to them directly.

Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

The chances of a white Christmas in New York are roughly one in four.

The term ‘The Big Apple’ was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression ‘apple’ for any town or city. To play New York City was to play the big time – hence The Big Apple.

There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.

In 2002, the year after 9/11, the most popular boat name in the US was Liberty.

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80 per cent.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

It costs about three cents to make a $1 bill.