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In celebration of the creation of AskUSA@discuss.online

And since this meme comes from Reddit, I made 100% certain (adjustment for inside the USA: 120%) to not research it in the slightest, just putting out here all confidently-like without a care in the world for anything other than how it makes us feel.

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Another fun fact: the last known US Civil War widow died in 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_survived_into_the_21st_century
The 10th president of the United States (John Tyler) has a grandson alive today.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, age 96.
How many raccoons in trenchoats old is that?
- I asked and according to the Raccoons: 🎂🍌.
  
  Sounds about right. You speak Raccoonese? I’ve always been interested in learning, but it’s not in Duolingo yet.
And I'm out here living in a town that's over a thousand years old. And it's not even a rare thing.
- Technically there are some places in the USA that are that old or even older - but like the Grand Canyon, so representing natural formations or belonging to indigenous peoples rather than towns made by the conquerors.
  
  laughs in Australian
- The shitty small village I used to live in as a kid/teenager has like 300 people and is older than the USA by some 400 years.
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I like the implications that 90 year old people can still have children
- That's simply the American hard work ethic - if you aren't having children at 90, then you aren't working hard enough!? 😜 (And then what, presumably they are raised by... older children? 😁)
Real countries have been around for what 1000 years.
- I mean... some of 'em. And if they have oil, well then the USA will say...

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