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Americans didn’t have to sneak into a speakeasy during Prohibition to get a drink. Many got their booze legally: by getting a prescription from a doctor and then buying their whiskey at a pharmacy. Alcohol had long been used as a medicinal remedy, making it sort of the medical marijuana of its day.

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Harry S. Truman didn't have a middle name

The "S" in Harry S. Truman's name doesn't actually stand for anything because his parents couldn't agree. They chose the letter "S" as a compromise to honor both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.

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The original title of the Statue of Liberty is “Liberty Enlightening the World.”

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The insect-eating venus flytrap plant is native only to North Carolina and South Carolina.

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By law, bourbon made for U.S. consumption must be made in the United States, must be made from a grain mixture that is at least 51 percent corn, and must be aged in charred oak barrels.

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Unlike Betty Crocker and Aunt Jemima, who are made up people, Italian immigrant Hector Boiardi ran a restaurant in Cleveland whose spaghetti sauce was so popular that he began manufacturing it for home cooking. That's him on the label.

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The black satchel that is never far from the president's side is called the nuclear football not because five specially trained aides from the military services hand it back and forth. No, the nickname came about shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis — as part of a war plan that was code-named Dropkick.

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Americans eat an astounding 48 billion burgers a year, or about three per week per person

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In 1898, a novel by American author Morgan Robertson depicted the sinking of an unsinkable ship. One of the most important plot points in “Futility” concerns the Titan, the largest ship of its day that hits an iceberg and tragically sinks at sea. While the story focuses on a naval officer’s life after the sinking, it’s hard not to compare this fictional story to the historical sinking of the Titanic...14 years later!

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Hollywood would like us to believe that 1930s gangsters made wide use of the "tommy gun." This is a misnomer. The gun was quite difficult to use and was dangerous to the shooter if he or she wasn't properly trained.

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer may live at the North Pole, but he was born in Chicago in 1939. The Montgomery Ward department store chain assigned ad copywriter Robert May to compose a Christmas poem that could be distributed to customers nationwide.

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Chicago is the birthplace of the first ever ferris wheel, which was 264-feet tall and debuted in the 1893 World’s Fair and was demolished shortly after in 1906. Today the 150-foot tall (15 story high) one at Navy Pier is modeled after the original one.

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Georgia is the birthplace of miniature golf. More specifically, at Lookout Mountain’s Rock City, which is located right outside of Chattanooga, TN.

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Atlantic City is home to longest boardwalk in the world and it’s often considered to be the best. It was America’s first boardwalk, built in 1870 to limit the amount of sand that beach-goers tracked into the train and hotel lobbies.

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The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

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32% of all land in the US is owned by the federal government, as they own about 650 million acres. The Federal Government actually owns 84.5% of Nevada, 69.1% of Alaska and 57.4% of Utah.

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The American flag’s official colors are “Old Glory Red,” “White,” and “Old Glory Blue.”

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Never seen an A12 Road Runner in this color combination before

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There's enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.

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Arizona and Hawaii are now the only states that don't observe daylight savings time.

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Of more than 2,500 National Historical Landmarks, only two can (willfully) move: San Francisco's cable cars and New Orleans’s St. Charles streetcar line.

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South Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild.

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There are only two escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. Both are located in banks. One was set in the city's First National Bank building, and the other in the Hilltop National Bank.

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The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minn. is actually owned by the Triple Five Group, which is based in Edmonton, Canada.

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Morton’s Toe is when your second toe is longer than your first “big toe.” This condition is also known by many other names, including “Greek foot,” “Royal toe,” “turkey toe,” “LaMay toe” or “Sheppard's toe.”

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Did you know . . . . the Statute of Liberty has Morton's Toe.

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Ellis Island actually didn’t force any immigrants to “Americanize” their names.

The popular story goes that many “foreign” sounding last names (often Jewish or Irish) were changed by immigration officers at Ellis Island to be more “American” and easier to pronounce in their new home. This is just a myth. These officers were often immigrants themselves and had no such instructions to offer suggestions for name changes. Nobody has been able to find concrete evidence of a single name being forcefully changed at Ellis Island. This myth comes from the fact that many immigrants actually willingly changed their names before boarding their respective ships to America, where they’d have to fill out a name in the ship's log.

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You don’t need a state driver’s license to compete in NASCAR.

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Countries that have not adopted the metric system (in red: Burma (Myanmar), Liberia and the United States)

I am officially addicted to this thread! Thanks Lee

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Apple has become the world’s first company to be valued at $1 trillion

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It’s illegal to import Sea Turtles as food or for any other purpose due to their endangered status

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it’s illegal to sell redfish in every state except Mississippi.

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Google was originally named BackRub

agreed; thanks Lee
 

So am I; love the cool pictures and interesting facts. Who knows, if I keep visiting this thread I might have enough information to go on Jeopardy...............nah.