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ULTIMATE Coupons. .com CELEBRATING ANDEPENDENCE ** DAY*** GENERAL FACTS POPULATION : 2.5 MILLION JULY 1776 311.7 MILLION JULY 2011 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 MILLIONS CONSUMERS: 123 MILLION 86 MILLION 0 50 100 150 200 MILLIONS • THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ALREADY OWN AN AMERICAN FLAG. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO OWN PATRIOTIC APPAREL. (T-SHIRTS, HATS, ETC.) OF CONSUMERS MORE THAN OWN PATRIOTIC 4 DECORATIONS. BEFORE CARS RULED THE ROADWAY, THE FOURTH OF JULY WAS TRADITIONALLY THE MOST MISERABLE DAY OF THE YEAR FOR HORSES, TORMENTED BY ALL THE NOISE AND THE CHILDREN WHO THREW FIRECRACKERS AT THEM. 98 MILLION ADULTS OVER 18 WILL WATCH FIREWORKS OR ATTENDA COMMUNITY CELEBRATION AT 12.2% WILL ATTEND A PARADE. 42.4% COMPARED TO LAST YEAR'S 11.5% 42.7% WILL TRAVEL OR TAKE A VACATION. 74% 26% OF OF U.S. CITIZENS KNOW THE U.S. U.S. CITIZENS DON'T KNOW WHAT DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM COUNTRY THE U.S. DECLARED ITS GREAT BRITAIN IN 1776. INDEPENDENCE FROM IN 1776. 6% THOUGHT THE U.S. SEPARATED FROM ANOTHER NATION, TYPICALLY FRANCE, CHINA, JAPAN, MEXICO OR SPAIN. RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! * PATRIOTIC U.S. CITIES * 3 FIVE PLACES HAVE "AMERICA" IN THEIR NAMES. THE 1 MOST POPULOUS IS AMERICAN FORK, UTAH (26,263). THIRTY-FIVE PLACES HAVE "EAGLE" IN THEIR NAMES. 2 THE MOST POPULOUS IS EAGLE PASS, TEXAS (26,248). THIRTY-ONE PLACES HAVE "LIBERTY" IN THEIR NAMES. IOWA, WITH FOUR,HAS MORE OF THESE PLACES THAN ANY OTHER STATE: LIBERTYVILLE, NEW LIBERTY, NORTH LIBERTY AND WEST LIBERTY. ELEVEN PLACES HAVE "INDEPENDENCE" IN THEIR NAMES. THE MOST POPULOUS IS INDEPENDENCE, MO (116,830). NINE PLACES HAVE "FREEDOM" IN THEIR NAMES. THE MOST POPULOUS IS NEW FREEDOM, PA. (4,464). ONE PLACE WITH "PATRIOT" IN THE NAME. PATRIOT, IND. (209). CALIFORNIA SECEDED FROM THE U.S.A. ON APRIL 7, 1850, BUT PROMPTLY VOTED TO THE STATE OF OHIO HAS A LAW FORBIDDING REJOIN THE COUNTRY ON JULY 4TH WHEN MISDEMEANOR HOLIDAY CELEBRANTS FOUND THAT SALOONS ARRESTS ON JULY 4TH. REFUSED TO SELL LIQUOR TO NON-CITIZENS! JOHN HANCOCK WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 56 SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF JEFFERSON AND ADAMS, EX-PRESIDENTS AND DECLARATION SIGNERS, BOTH DIED ON JULY 4TH IN 1826; JUST A FEW INDEPENDENCE WHO ACTUALLY SIGNED ON MINUTES APART! A THIRD PRESIDENT, MONROE DIED JULY 4TH, 1831. ONLY ONE U.S. PRESIDENT, CALVIN JULY 4TH! 52 OF THEM SIGNED ON AUG. 2, 1776, AND THE OTHERS SIGNED IT LATER - ONE OF THEM IN 1781. COOLIDGE, WAS BORN ON JULY 4TH. IN CONGRESS JULY A 1776 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, ADOPTED BY THE U.S. CONGRESS ON JULY 4TH, 1776, WAS IGNORED phe ittani BY ENGLAND AT THAT TIME AND WAS ONLY HneriC PUBLISHED AS A 6-LINE ITEM IN THE LONDON MORNING POST BELO W A THEATRICAL NOTICE. FOURTH OF JULY COOKOUTS A POPULAR FOURTH OF JULY SIDE DISH IS CORN ON THE COB, FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR 68 PERCENT OF THE FRESH MARKET SWEET CORN PRODUCED NATIONALLY IN 2010. WASHINGTON IDAHO POTATO SALAD AND POTATO CHIPS ARE POPULAR FOOD ITEMS AT FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUES. APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE NATION'S SPUDS WERE PRODUCED IN IDAHO OR WASHINGTON STATE IN 2010. * CHICKEN FOR THE FOURTH THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT THE CHICKEN YOU ARE GRILLING CAME FROM ONE OF THESE STATES : GA AR AL TX MS NC * 144 MILLION AMERICANS WILL * CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY THE TRADITIONAL WAY BY ATTENDING OR HOSTINGA COOKOUT/BBQ OR PICNIC. WHERE DO MY BEEF HOT DOGS, STEAKS & BURGERS COME FROM? 6.8 BILLION TEXAS 4.6 BILLION NEBRASKA 4.1 BILLION KANSAS 3 4. 6. BILLIONS OF POUNDS WHERE DO MY HOT DOGS & PORK SAUSAGES COME FROM? 19.0 MILLION IOWA 8.6 MILLION N. CAROLINA 7.6 MILLION MINNESOTA 10 15 20 MILLIONS OF POUNDS SOURCES: http://www.ripleysnews room.com/july42011/ http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cbl1-ff13.html http://www.infobarrel.com/Ten_Interesting_Facts About_the_Fourth_of_July http://socyberty.com/holidays/strange-facts-about-the-fourth-of-july/ http://maristpoll.marist.edu/72-don% E2%80%99t-know-much-about-history/