In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation was 2.5 million. Now thanks to the Baby Boom after World War II, the sexual revolution in the 60’s and FOX’s ‘Temptation Island’, our nation’s estimated population this July Fourth will be 313.9 million.

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Source: Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970

4th of July Fact #2