facts about US
The largest air force in the world is the U.S. Air Force. The world’s second-largest air force is the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combined.
Statistically, the deadliest job in America is … president. Of the 44 men who’ve held the post, four have been assassinated in office— a rate of roughly 9 percent (or about one in ten) killed on the job.
The only president who was an executioner: Grover Cleveland. As sheriff of Erie County, New York, he hanged a murderer.
An estimated one in ten of us could be a blood relative to one of the original 102 pilgrims who arrived aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
Slightly more than 69 percent of firefighters in the United States are volunteers.
Statistically, the deadliest job in America is … president. Of the 44 men who’ve held the post, four have been assassinated in office— a rate of roughly 9 percent (or about one in ten) killed on the job.
The only president who was an executioner: Grover Cleveland. As sheriff of Erie County, New York, he hanged a murderer.
An estimated one in ten of us could be a blood relative to one of the original 102 pilgrims who arrived aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
Slightly more than 69 percent of firefighters in the United States are volunteers.
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