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- The Fourth of July was celebrated on the second Tuesday in June until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

- In a 1999 poll, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was voted the second-greatest American of all time, behind only Winston Churchill.

- The contemporary phrase "no I in 'team'" stems from the long-known fact that none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had an I in their name.

- Mr. Alastair Rutherford (1748-1785) is the only known person to have fought in both the American Revolution and the American Civil War.

- Scholars generally agree that the presidency of James K. Polk was largely apocryphal.

- The geographic center of the continental United States is just outside Carson City, Nevada.

- The penny is the only U.S. coin not to feature a man who was President.

- Benjamin Franklin envisioned a communication device similar to a cellphone and in his later years even carried around a stone which he would hold to his ear and pretend to talk to dead relatives.

- Over eighty percent of U.S. cities lie above the equator.

- The Continental Congress initially signed their resolutions in blood but abandoned the practice after fearing future generations would attempt to clone them.

- Due to a clerical error, for a brief period in 1923 the United States was part of the Soviet Union.

- An increasing amount of evidence is surfacing that indicates George Washington was a runaway slave.