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• The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
• The United States Flag is also known as “Stars and Stripes”, “Old Glory”, and the “Star-Spangled Banner”.
• The last star added to US Flag was for the State of Hawaii, 1960.
• 2.1 million Americans are currently incarcerated. State and federal prisons hold 1.3 million people, local jails hold 631,240, and 108,965 are held in juvenile facilities. The remainder are in INS, territorial, military or other facilities. This number is triple what it was in 1985 (700,000). In addition, there are 4.6 million persons on probation or parole, bringing the total to 6.7 million citizens i.e. over 3 percent of the adult population under the supervision of the criminal justice system.
• The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.
• Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment.
• The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At some times of the year the difference between high and low tide is 53 feet 6 inches, the equivalent of a three-story building.
• Earth’s longest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, which winds around the globe from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic, skirting Africa, Asia and Australia, and crossing the Pacific to the west coast of North America. It is four times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.
• Although Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, is often called the tallest mountain on Earth, Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii, is actually taller. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, yet it is 33,465 feet tall if measured from the ocean floor to its summit.
•  In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson declared the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day with a presidential proclamation.
• In the United States, the so-called Jim Crow laws (or Black Codes) were made to enforce racial segregation, and included laws that would prevent African-Americans from doing things that a white person could do.
• Jimmy Carter(39th President of US 1977-1981) was the first president born in a hospital.
• Carter studied nuclear physics at Annapolis.
• Carter was a speed reader, having been recorded reading 2,000 words per minute.
  

• Ada Lovelace wrote a set of notes specifying in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the Analytical Engine described by Charles Babbage. This is recognized as the world’s first computer program and she is recognised as the world’s first computer programmer by historians.
• Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sex.
• The word “pornography” comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes.”