2nd Jul 2021 - 08:55
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To celebrate American Independence Day on Sunday (4 July) we have found our favourite food facts about our cousins across the pond.
- On July 4th Americans are expected to eat 150m hot dogs, which laid end-to-end would cross the country five times.
- The largest food crop grown in the US is corn; in 2019 farmers planted the equivalent of 69m football fields of it.
- More than 10 billion donuts are consumed in the United States every year!
- 1,996lb (905kg), or nearly one ton, is the estimate by weight of what the average American eats in a year.
- The state of California is famous for being the biggest producer of grapes in America.
- If every apple in Washington that was picked in a single year was placed next to each other it would circle around the earth 29 times.
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