American Traditions That Confuse The Rest of the World

Singing in Public

Americans do like to sing in public, but why? Walking down the street singing and dancing is a pretty weird sight. In most other countries, if you have a place to be, you walk and you get there and you don't do any dillydallying in between.

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The More You Know

  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • One area of Canada has a weaker gravitational pull than the rest of Earth.
  • Alexander the Great encouraged his men to shave so enemies couldn't grab their beards during battles.
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