Happy 4th of July

Some interesting facts about this super important day courtesy of goodhousekeeping.com

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Several presidents died on July 4th.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who both signed the Declaration, died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of Independence Day. If that isn't eerie enough, James Monroe also died on the same day five years later.

 

America isn't the only country that observes it.

Denmark parties hard on the Fourth of July (they celebrate since thousands of Danes emigrated to the U.S. in 1912), and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush have even been keynote speakers at the celebration.

 

Americans basically devour all of our favourite foods on the Fourth.

We're talking 155 million hot dogs, $107 million spent on popsicles, and $167 million spent on watermelon. Plus, Independence Day is the biggest holiday for beer sales, topping Labor Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day and Christmas.

 

This year, New York City has competition for the biggest fireworks display.

Macy's fireworks in the Big Apple are typically America's largest — but this year, Nashville is eyeing the prize. "It is not an exact science, but we got a rough idea of how many shells New York had so we told our supplier to make sure he had more shells than New York this year," Butch Spyridon, CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp., told USA Today. We suppose friendly competition is an American tradition, after all.

 

There's an official "Fourth of July City."

Seriously, in 1979 an act of Congress dubbed Seward, Nebraska, "America's Official Fourth of July City-Small Town USA." Even though only 6,000 people live there, over 40,000 come to the town's celebration — which is largely run by high school students."