Just a little over 200 years ago there were only 20,000 people in New York City, and George Washington was fixing to kick some British ass.
There's over 8,000,000 people in NYC today.

Please add things like that. Anything you think is interesting or noteworthy. The more random the better. Historical, modern, trivial, whatever. Maybe something from news or tv or Reader's Digest. The kind of stuff you go bother your wife with and she says "That's wonderful, dear."
I love these kind of things because it incites me to go read and search out the stories, or just look a little deeper, cause I love to learn me stuff.
It's not necessary to make your post in bold letters. It doesn't even necessarily need to be true. We have plenty of brains here, someone will straighten it out.
Let's see what you got. :-)
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86.7% of statistics are made up on the spot. :-)
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Regarding the Washington kicking some British ass...

Had the wind not been out of the East on the night of August 29-30, 1776, and the British been able to bring in reinforcements, we would all likely be British today. Because of the heavy wind from the East, the Bristish army was not able to board small boats and cross from New Jersey to Long Island. Washington's army was able to evacuate 9000 across the East River without a single loss of life.

FWIW, one of my great great great great .... aunts was a spy for Washington (the Culper spy ring) during this time period. http://aphdigital.org/projects/culperspyring/strong
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John Adams, our 1st Vice President and 2nd President, was a cigar smoker, as was his son John Quincy Adams, our 6th President. :-)
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Although george washington is typically credited as the first president of the united states of america there were actually multiple before him. Some claim that john hanson was the first president but john hancock was actually the first
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Corrected for accuracy
http://www.cojoweb.com/first-president.html
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The fastest hat trick in NHL history was scored my Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Blackhawks on March 23rd, 1952....he scored three goals in 21 seconds.
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Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd.
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There is a city called Rome on every continent.
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A fan doesn't actually cool a room down, but rather can increase temperature.
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Ramon Pane, a monk who accompanied Christopher Columbus to the Americas, is usually credited with introducing tobacco to Europe.
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August
2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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Neil Young and Rick James were in a band together.

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/friends/rick-james.htm

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a Super Freak!

MCS
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The term hat-trick comes from cricket, and means to take three wickets in three balls. Allegedly, it is called a hat-trick as the owner of the bowler's team would present him with a brand new hat for his efforts.
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And now it's been appropriated for sports that people actually care about... :-)
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The water from all the other Great Lakes would fit into Lake Superior, plus 2 additional Lake Eries.

There is enough water in Lake Superior (3,000,000,000,000,000--or 3 quadrillion-- gallons) to flood all of North and South America to a depth of one foot.
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MCS likes cake------does that count for anything?
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The first notable user of the Thompson submachine gun was not the Prohibition gangs...it was the Irish Republican Army.
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The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri has more miles of shoreline than the state of California.
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My butt is itchy. :-)
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