One of the World Trade Centres was built to be 1,776 feet tall on purpose to reference the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
100 Mind-Blowing Declaration Facts
In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was a symbolic declaration of love, and to catch it was to show acceptance of that love.
Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on Independence Day. These titular figures for American independence both died exactly 50 years after the Declaration on July 4, 1826. WTF facts, or coincidence?
The tallest building in the US is One World Trade Centre in New York, which comes in at number six on the worldwide list. It stands at exactly 1,776 feet as a nod to the date of the Declaration of Independence.
USA was declared free from foreign rule on July 2nd, however, it was on the 4th of July when John Hancock gave his first signature on the declaration.