LONGITUDE? ATTITUDE

The U.S. has 50 states because it couldn’t stop collecting.

✗ FAKE

The United States has 50 states because of its history of territorial expansion and admission by Congress, with Hawaii the last in 1959. It was not a collecting habit.

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