20 Things You Didn’t Know About the USA
Only history experts will know all 20 facts
From a word being misspelled on the Liberty Bell to English NOT being the official language, here are 20 things you probably didn’t know about the USA…
94% of Americans Have Peanut Butter
It’s a sticky subject but it seems the entire country is nuts about peanut butter. Ninety-four percent of all households in the USA have at least one jar. It takes 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar and the average peanut farm is a spread of 200 acres. Two United States presidents have been peanut farmers. A study revealed the average American eats around three thousand peanut butter sandwiches in their lifetime.
Are Burritos Sandwiches?
Speaking of sandwiches, burritos are NOT considered a sandwich in America. And, there’s a law to prove it. In 2006, Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke ruled that a burrito is NOT a sandwich. The US Department of Agriculture backed the law up and further defined the sandwich as a meat or poultry filling between two slices of bread, bun, or biscuit. So much for egg sandwiches.
