Are we ready? So today we are at our nation's capital and we will amaze you we will surprise
you with surprising facts about America about Washington dc we will ask you questions while
we are bicycling around so let's see how many of these questions you know let's go riding
what is the largest office building in the world? pentagon the pentagon boasts 17 miles of quarters
who invaded the pentagon in the 1990s it was invaded by rats mice and cockroaches
the cockroaches would fall on people's desks from the ceiling tiles wherever you turned the
bug was waiting the building had plumbing electrical problems too eventually these
problems started interfering with the ability to communicate with the troops during the gulf war
so that obviously that was unacceptable so that is when it went through a total
renovation
Question.. who wrote the declaration of independence?
at 33 years old Thomas Jefferson wrote the ultimate breakup letter it's not you it's us
or it's not you it's U.S. he was our third president and when he lived in the white house
TJ would greet his guest in his bathrobe and slippers. Oh boy so if that didn't
surprise you this will. Was the declaration of independence written on a laptop true or false??
True Jefferson created a table that was a portable writing table and it was called a laptop who knew?
Which president is in the wrestling hall of fame? He was also the tallest president. Honest Abe! He
was the winner of 299 matches out of 300 that's pretty good he only lost one match.
So where is the first memorial honoring American women for their patriotic services?
Give up? It's right here! it's right next to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and it took until 1993
to get this statue to honor women who
volunteered and risked their lives to take care of the country's wounded and dying in the war.
The next question. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence? 56 signers of the
Declaration of Independence but the strange thing is eight of them were British! Can you
believe? Here we are surrounded by Washington DC's monuments all over the place but this area is an
island and it's pretty secret nobody really comes here. What is the tallest monument in
the world? The Washington monument. NO, it's not. All right, she's right It was until the
Eiffel tower was built. This Washington monument has 867 stairs and the fastest known ascent time
up the stairs is 6.7 minutes all right you want to give it a shot let's go!
Some of the items that are buried beneath here when it was under construction are copies of the
Declaration of Independence, a map of the city, a book of poems, coins and ladies' magazines. Do you
want to go treasure hunting? Maybe we shouldn't! Nope, there's no treasure hunting over there.
What are you guys doing out here? I didn't know they were secret service
bike riders? I like riding a bike I like being outside I like pedaling and I like
getting the exercise today especially you get to interact with the community
Who was the first person to live in the white house? The first president was John Adams,
who lived here with his wife Abigail. What is the weirdest pet animal that a president
had? Take a guess? President Hoover and Adams both kept alligators as pets in the white house
What happened on July 4th, 1776? Just testing you. July 4th the day we broke away from the
British rule with a written document called the Declaration of Independence. The document is in
this building right behind us if that didn't happen we would all be drinking tea at 4 pm,
be calling cookies a biscuit, chips are fries and crisps are chips or that's a bit confusing.
If you think that's confusing try biking on the left side of the road! yeah, baby!
So what happened on 601 Pennsylvania Avenue? I don't know I just see people eating lunch.
Our national anthem ‘the star-spangled banner’ was sung for the first time right here. Right here!
This is a crazy fact written by Francis Scott Key,
Key was a one-hit-wonder who might have been tone-deaf. His family members said he had a hard
time carrying a tune. Just like you! Yeah!, very much so and I will not be singing it.
So how many questions did you get right? If you got them all… you won a free
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