I don't know about you, but this past week all I have been doing is watching the Olympics at every spare minute I have. Even if I do not have the time to watch, my phone's Google App is repeatedly going off with Olympic notifications to let me know what is happening on a daily base. I also feel like it is the 4th of July all over again with so much pride that makes us feel great to be an American as we root for Team USA. With that being said, here are 10 interesting facts you may have known or not known about the Olympic Games.

1. I The country that has won the most medals at the Summer Olympic Games is the United States of America (all 2,189 of them).

2. Those shiny Gold Medals we see people win are not really made of pure gold. They are silver with a gold plating.

3. In the first Olympic Games, the Ancient Greeks competed in the nude. That must have taken some guts.

4. The Southern Hemisphere has never hosted a Winter Olympic Games.

5. Abebe Bikila was the first African to ever win a gold medal and he did so barefoot.

6. There was no Olympic Games in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the World Wars.

7. The first Olympic games every held on U.S. Television was the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics.

8. For the first Olympic Games, Ancient Greek event winners were awarded olive branch wreaths.

9. We all know that swimmer, Michael Phelps, is the golden boy of of the Summer Olympic Games but he also now holds the most gold medals in U.S Olympics history.

10. The last Olympic solid gold medals were awarded in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games.

Let's continue to root on our Team USA and wish them the best of luck!