10 Facts About the United States You Might Have Wrong
Get your facts right, old man! Fact-checking a friend’s facts. How well do you rate?
Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and we started debating about the history of the United States. When we finished, I decided to send him a simple list of ten facts that many people have wrong.
If you want to check it, here is the list of curious facts about the United States; you might like to find out if you have them right. And in the process, save yourself some searching time and probably adjust your “Factometer.”
1 — Washington was not the first president. There were 14 more Continental Presidents, 1. Peyton Randolph, 2. Arthur Henry Middleton, 3. John Hancock, 4. Henry Laurens, 5. John Jay, 6. Samuel Huntington, 7. Thomas McKean, 8. John Hanson, 9. Elias Boudinot, 10. Thomas Mifflin, 11. Richard Henry Lee, 12. Nathaniel Gorham, 13. Arthur Saint Clair, 14. Cyrus Griffin.
George Washington was elected the first President after the Constitution. Also, Presidents' Day is supposedly celebrated on the third Monday of February to commemorate his birthday. But he was born on February 11, 1732, not on the third Monday of February, so Presidents’ Day never falls on his or any other American president’s birthday. And by the way, he didn’t…
