First fun fact of 2010. This one comes from 1797. Relatively early in the life of the United States there was need to secure respite from privateering in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The US, with Washington himself spearheading (the bill was later signed by Adams after unanimous approval from Congress) drew up the Treaty of Tripoli. Your fun fact comes from Article 11 of said treaty. Enjoy.
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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