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How many stripes on the American Flag?

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How many stripes on the American Flag?

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There are 13 stripes for the original 13 colonies. The original plan was to add a stripe for each new state, just like we do for the stars, but that became unwieldy very fast. I think they went back to 13 stripes after they’d tried 15.

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