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Interesting Facts about United States of America

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about United States of America.

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34 curious facts about United States of America.

When a child loses a tooth they put tooth under their pillow. While asleep, the Tooth Fairy will come into the room, take the tooth and leave some money in its place.
When an eskimo child loses a tooth the Yupik mother wraps the food in meat or bread. Then they feed it to a female dog and say "replace this tooth with a better one".
Navajo (American Indian Tribe): When a child loses a tooth the mother saves the tooth until their mouth stops hurting. Then they take the tooth to the southeast, away from the house. They bury the tooth on the east side of a healthy young sagebrush, rabbitbrush, or pinyon tree because they believe that east is the direction associated with childhood.
The largest fresh water lake in the world is Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes in North America. It is 31,700 square miles in size.

The fastest recorded wind spot on earth is atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire. A wind speed of 231 miles per hour has been recorded there.
The snowiest place on earth is Mount Rainier in Washington State. One year, more than 1,200 inches of snow fell there. Mount Rainier is covered in snow the whole year. Some of the snow has formed glaciers, masses of ice that slowly move down the mountain under their own weight.
The highest mountain in North America is Mount McKinley (also called Denali) in Alaska, at 20,320 feet. Mount Whitney, in California, is the highest peak in the continental United States. The summit is 14,491 feet above sea level.
The hottest spot ever recorded in the United States is 134.6 °F, in Death Valley, California.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States is -80 °F, at Prospect Creek Camp in Alaska.
Mount Wai-ale-ale, on the island of Kauai in Hawaii has the most rainy days in the United States at 350 a year.