weird facts about july 4th
In Biloxi, Mississippi, it is illegal to insert a firecracker in your anus without lighting it.
Up until 1973, the city of Davenport, Iowa, would celebrate Independence Day by scalping a live Indian in the Town Square.
For fear of upsetting his slave mistress, Thomas Jefferson removed the phrase "None of this applies to niggers" from the original draft of the Declaration of Independence.
After signing Jefferson’s revolutionary document, the Founding Fathers ordered out for Thai food.
On July 5th, Ben Franklin was still drunk.
