24. Does America have 50 or 52 states?
A common case of misconception, as others would have it, is that there are 52 states in the US. Some individualsadmit to being perplexed by this information that has been wrong all along! They remember being taught in school that the US has 52 states which is actually false and was never the case. Taking the federal capital District of Columbia and Puerto Rico out of the equation, there are only 50 states, unless it was a different story in a parallel world. Reference.com clarifies that DC is not a state and Puerto Rico is an unincorporated US territory.
