Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one)
1. The population of Washington D.C. jumps 26% every day when people commute in.
2. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert wasn’t at the theater when his dad was assassinated in 1865 . . . but he was there when two OTHER presidents were killed.
He was with James Garfield at a train station in Washington D.C. when he was assassinated in 1881, and he was in the same building in New York when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
3. China drinks 38% of the alcohol in the world . . . but nothing you’ve ever heard of. 99.5% of all alcohol they drink is a liquor called baijiu.
4. “Pennsylvania” is misspelled on the Liberty Bell . . . it only has one of the first two n’s. It wasn’t wrong at the time the bell was made, because a few different spellings were used . . . but it’s been wrong since they settled on one official spelling.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#1!
The population of Washington D.C. jumps 79% every day when people commute in.
SOURCES:
(Census.gov / Wikipedia / The Economist / National Science Foundation)
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