SHOCKING STATISTICS!

FROM NBC NEWS:

1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Who We Fought for Independence

Poll shows some Americans need to brush up on the Revolutionary War

As grills across America fire up this weekend some Americans may want to crack open a history book instead of a cold beer.

A Marist poll finds that 26 percent of Americans don’t know whom the United States declared its independence from.

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