The first X-rated animated movie was Fritz the Cat. It is still the most successful independent animated feature to date.
100 Mind-Blowing Independent Facts
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the U.S., with a population of 621,849. Meaning that it is not part of any county.
The average American spends 2.5 days annually looking for lost items. This statistic comes from one of the nation’s largest independent lost-and-found surveys. The most commonly misplaced items are phones, keys, wallets, purses, and remotes.
Texas is the only state that chose to join the United States. The country added all other states by annexation. Texas willingly joined with a treaty and it was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.
Surprising the sexists. Suffragist life partners, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, both qualified doctors, attempted to join the armed forces medical services on the outbreak of war in 1914 but were not allowed to serve because of their sex. So they set up an independent hospital to treat wounded soldiers, with all-female staff, surgeons, anaesthesiologists and nurses. It rapidly became regarded as the best in the UK.
Old McDonald’s. The oldest operating McDonald’s is located in Downey, California, and was opened in 1953. As it was franchised by the McDonald brothers, not Ray Kroc, it did not modernise alongside the McDonald’s Corporation until its acquisition in 1990, when it was the only remaining independent McDonald’s.
The pound sterling is the oldest existing currency: The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom, with the first pound appearing in 1489 under the reign of Henry VIII. While the majority of Europe adopted the Euro as a single currency around the beginning of the 21st Century, the pound sterling survived as an independent currency.