Although the Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it only lasted one year, from 1860-61.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.
Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
Americans drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a billion and a half pounds of coffee every year.
Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.
Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
Americans use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.
Americans use over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
America's first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.
An African American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
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A standard pizza from Dominos has a 10" diameter so I will let YOU do the math. My brain is too full of other numbers right now. And there are 18 acres so that's a lot of pepperoni!
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