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The oldest city in the United States is not a city from the original 13 colonies. It\u2019s St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish explorer Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s established a settlement there in 1565. He reached shore on August 28th<\/sup> (the day of the feast of St. Augustine, hence the name). It was controlled by the Spanish, and then the British, and then the Spanish again, before it was technically American. The United States acquired the region by treaty in 1821.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Because of Christmas\u2019s roots as an ancient pagan holiday (because of the offering of gifts and the decorating of trees), the early American Puritans didn\u2019t originally take too kindly to it. They believed that religion should be very solemn, so the carol-singing, booze-drinking Christmas celebrations didn\u2019t sit well with them. The Parliament of England, largely composed of Puritans, made the holiday illegal in the 1600s, and the North American Puritans in New England did likewise. The law stuck as the New England colonies evolved into the United States. The first state to actively legalize Christmas was Alabama, and that wasn\u2019t until 1836! Christmas became a federal holiday in 1870, but it was still illegal in some states. It wasn\u2019t until 1907, the year that Oklahoma became a state, that Christmas was legal throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The \u2018Ms\u2019 in M&Ms stand for \u2018Mars\u2019 and \u2018Murrie\u2019 \u2014 Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie. The two actually had a very contentious relationship, as Mars leveraged Murrie out of his 20% share in the company in 1949\u2014years before M&Ms would become the best-selling candy in the U.S., paying him just $1 million for a share of business that would soon be worth billions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The U.S. 50-star flag was designed as part of a high school project by 17-year-old Robert G. Heft. It was 1958, and there were only 48 states at the time, but Heft had a hunch Hawaii and Alaska would soon be granted statehood. His teacher gave him a B- but went on to update the grade to an A after Heft submitted his design to the White House, eventually leading to a call from President Eisenhower that it had been selected as the official U.S. flag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Crocodile poop used to be used as contraception. Amorous Ancient Egyptian women used crocodile pooh pessaries. Documents dating back to 1850BC refer to this method of contraception. Crocodile dung is slightly alkaline, like modern-day spermicides, so it could have worked. On the other hand, it may well have been that after application neither party felt much like making love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Post-death, Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte\u2019s penis was removed from body during autopsy, displayed on a museum, and sold for $2,700 in1977 to John K. Lattimer in 1977, and is still held in his family, who keep it as a private item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This famous American landmark didn\u2019t get its name from the mountain on which it is built, nor is it named after the man who sculpted it (John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum) or any of the people depicted on it. Its namesake was a New York lawyer. In 1884, an attorney named Charles Edward Rushmore visited the Black Hills area and, according to the National Parks site, Rushmore asked a local guide what the name of the mountain was. The guide replied, \u201cWe will name it now, and name it Rushmore.\u201d And, somehow, that name stuck. An off-hand comment ended up giving the monument its permanent name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Independence Day (a\/k\/a the Fourth of July) is the day that\u2019s long been designated as the birthdate of The U.S., which declared its independence from Great Britain by adopting the Declaration of Independence. But Congress officially declared its independence from England on July 2, 1776. We celebrate the holiday on the fourth of July because that was the day that John Hancock became the first man to sign the document. On July 3, 1776, John Adams (who went on to become our second president) wrote a letter to his wife, Abigail, to tell her how excited he was that Congress had voted in favor of independence. \u201cThe Second Day of July 1776 will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America,\u201d he declared. Adams so firmly believed that July 2nd<\/sup> was the correct day on which to celebrate American independence that he refused to appear at July 4th events as a matter of principle. Irnically, perhaps, Adams (as well as third President Thomas Jefferson) passed away on Jul 4, 1826.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The largest state in America, Alaska, is 429 times the size of the smallest state, Rhode Island, in terms of area. Its coastline is longer than the coastlines of all 49 other states combined. However, Rhode Island has the larger population of the two\u2014by more than 300,000 more people. Rhode Island is also the state with the longest official name: \u201cState of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At age 32 (when he died), Alexander the Great had conquered and created the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. It stretched from the Balkans to Pakistan. In 323 BC, he became ill and, after 12 days of excruciating pain, he seemingly passed away. However, his corpse didn\u2019t show any signs of rot or decomposition for a whole six days. Modern-day scientists believe Alexander suffered from the neurological disorder Guillain-Barr\u00e9 Syndrome. They believe that when he \u201cdied\u201d he was actually just paralyzed and mentally aware. Basically, he was horrifically buried alive!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Thanksgiving hasn\u2019t always been held on the fourth Thursday of November. It was held on several different dates until Abraham Lincoln declared that it would henceforth be held the fourth Thursday in November of every year in 1863. This day was honored by every subsequent president until FDR moved it to the third Thursday of November in 1939 to extend the Christmas season. After many complaints, he moved it back to the fourth Thursday two years later, and that\u2019s when we celebrate it today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
The oldest city in the United States is not a city from the original 13 colonies. It\u2019s St. Augustine, Florida. The Spanish explorer Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s established a settlement there in 1565. He reached shore on August 28th (the day of the feast of St. Augustine, hence the name). It was controlled by the Spanish, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,57],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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