United States of America: facts you've never heard of

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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about the United States of America.

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1. The current design of the U.S. flag is its 27th; the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The current 50-star American flag was designed by a 17-year-old, Robert G. Heft, as a school project in 1958. He got a B-. It is the longest-used version of the U.S. flag and has been in use for over 56 years.

2. The state of Alaska is the largest of the 50 states of the Union. It’s more than twice as big as the next largest state, Texas. However, it has a population of only 738 thousand people, which is about half of the population of Hawaii. Alaska used to be a Russian colony, until it was sold to America in 1867.

3. Puerto Rico is a territory of the USA and it has been since 1898. It’s an unincorporated U.S. territory, which means that, although it’s governed by the United States government, it’s not part of the Union. This led to some weird consequences: for instance, a Puerto Rican is a natural born US citizen, but as long as he or she resides in Puerto Rico, it may not vote for the president or vice president.

4. The city of Atlanta used to be called Terminus. It was the starting point of a new railroad to the Midwest, where settlers began to build homes. It quickly grew into a large town, which than became the capital city of the state of Georgia. Coca-Cola was also launched here in 1886.

5. Yellowstone was the first National Park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park contains the Yellowstone Supervolcano, an active volcano that last erupted 630,000 years ago. When it will erupt again, it will devastate a large portion of the US, mostly through ash fall.

6. The first capital of the Union was New York City, between 1785 and 1790. In 1789 George Washington took his oath as president on the balcony at Federal Hall. Since 1790 it has remained the largest city in the USA.

7. Originally, the United States was comprised of 13 states on the East Coast. Gradually, the colonies increasingly resisted London's demands for more control and began collaborating with each other instead. This led to calls for protection of the colonists' "Rights as Englishmen", especially the principle of "no taxation without representation" and eventually the American Revolution began in which the colonies established a Continental Congress and declared independence in 1776.

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