The Liberty Bell is also located in Philadelphia, PA. https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/stories-libertybell.htm

Thomas Jefferson hosted the first 4th of July celebration at the White House in 1801.

While anything grilled is great on the 4th of July, Hot Dogs are the most popularly eaten item. Americans typically eat 150 million hot dogs on Independence Day, “enough to stretch from D.C. to L.A. more than five times".

The 4th was officially declared a Federal Holiday in 1870 and was declared a PAID Federal Holiday in 1938.

The Declaration of Independence was not actually signed on July 4, 1776. That's the day it was formally adopted by the Continental Congress. It was not signed by most signatories until August.

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe all passed away on the 4th of July.

The famed Macy's fireworks show in NYC uses more than 75,000 fireworks shells and costs approximately six million dollars.

Calvin Coolidge was born 7.4.1872

Of the 56 signers, the youngest signers (Thomas Lynch Jr and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina) were only 26. Benjamin Franklin (PA) was the oldest signer at 70 years old.