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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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The number of passports held by Americans leaped to 21.4 million in 2017, the most ever recorded.

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The U.S. is one of most mobile nations on Earth. According to a Gallup poll, 24% of U.S. adults reported moving within the country in the past five years.

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Three out of every four tornadoes in the world occur in the United States.

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The U.S. has won more Nobel Prizes than any other country.

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An estimated 96% of Americans use the internet, compared with about 54% of the global population.

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Founded in Arkansas in 1962, Walmart is the world's largest private-sector employer, providing 2.2 million jobs.

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Manhattan's Chinatown is home to more Chinese residents than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere.

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The U.S. accounts for 21% of energy consumption globally and has the world's highest per capita energy consumption. America is second in the world in energy production.

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The number of brewers in the U.S. climbed to 6,372 in 2017, from just 89 in 1978, fueled by the craft beer surge.

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Eight of the 10 largest companies in the world by market cap are American.

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More than half of the states--26--have names with native American origins.

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The U.S., with its extensive coastline, has had more tropical cyclone hits, 268, than any other country, according to data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.

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Americans bought more than $3 billion worth of hot dogs in supermarkets last year. Los Angeles is top dog for franks, consuming about 31 million pounds a year.

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While baseball may be America's favorite pastime, it borrows heavily from the British game of cricket. Similarly, football is based largely on the British sport of rugby. Invented in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, basketball is the most popular uniquely American game.

Ruin it?

The Chevy/GM truck front end has been going down hill since 1980.

The last 10 years + have been atrocious.

I'll stick with my F350(410k on the clock and still going) or my Ram 3500.

Then there is that dog the Duramax. No thanks. I'll never forget having to start the delivery guy's new Duramax with ether(in July) when he delivered my Kirkham.

Make mine a Cummins with an Aisin.

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Your Thumb Doesn’t Make a Sound When You Snap Your Fingers

The sound you hear is actually created by your middle finger hitting against your palm, not your thumb rubbing against your index finger.

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The Average Human Grows 550-600 Miles of Hair in a Lifetime

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Harrod’s Was the First Place to Ever Sell Toilet Paper

In 1857, toilet “wipes” were invented in London. The Bronco brand wipes were tough on one side and shiny on the other—hardly soft and not absorbent at all. It took until 1936 for toilet paper as we know it to hit shelves.

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Cheetahs, despite their size, stature, and status, actually can’t roar. They meow just like normal house cats.

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The peak of Mt. Everest is marine limestone that contains fossilized skeletons of marine creatures from what used to be the Tethys Sea. Approximately 470 million years ago, it was sea floor! Mt. Everest and the Himalayas were formed 70 million years ago when the Eurasian plate and Indo-Australian plate collided, pushing the plate boundaries up into the mountain range you can see today

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Most people think dogs see in black and white, but they actually see in shades of yellow and green. The color spectrum we see is thanks to the rods and cones in our eyes, which are responsible for interpreting color by wavelength. Humans (and primates) see three wavelengths of color (red, blue, and yellow) but dogs only have cones that see two (yellow and blue). Basically, to a dog, anything that is a shade of red will just be interpreted as a shade of green.

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If you analyze the nursery lyrics, you’ll notice there is not a single mention of an egg. Historians have surmised that Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used during the English Civil War of 1642–1649, which the Royalists sat atop a wall surrounding the city of Colchester to ward off an attack from the Parliamentarians. In 1648, when the Parliamentarians sieged the city, the wall that Humpty was on was blown apart, and Humpty fell. Because of its size, none of the king’s horses and none of the king’s men were able to recover the cannon.

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As reported by the Telegraph, scientists at the University of China who were researching the material of the Great Wall were surprised to learn that there was a special ingredient added to the standard mixture of lime and water: sticky rice! Not only did this make the Great Wall mortar the world’s first composite mortar, it also was the reason why the Ming Dynasty’s structures were able to withstand everything from earthquakes to the sands of time.

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If you never understood where the name came from, now it can finally make sense: the bars, when created in 1930, were sold in packs of three, each with a different nougat flavor: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. During the sugar rations in World War II, three-packs became too expensive to produce (and consume), so the company cut the retail down to one flavor.

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The ManhattAnt (the official scientific name not yet determined) is found only within a 14-block strip of New York City, and nowhere else on the planet. It’s similar to a regular cornfield ant, but can’t be matched to any other known ant species. Scientists believe that it evolved thanks to isolation within the concrete jungle—and potentially from an unhealthy diet, as it lives in such close proximity to Upper West Siders, who, with all the pizza and hot dogs, don’t exactly have the healthiest diets.