Strange Facts about the
U.S.
More people live in
New York City
than in 40 of the 50 states.
There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and
South America
in one foot of liquid.
There's a town in
Washington
with treetop bridges made specifically to help squirrels cross the street
In 1872,
Russia
sold
Alaska
to the Unites States for about 2 cents per acre..
It would take you more than 400 years to spend a night in all of
Las Vegas
's hotel rooms.
Western Michigan
is home to a giant lavender labyrinth so big you can see it on Google Earth.
There's an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of
South Carolina
called
Morgan
Island
, and it's not open to humans.
There's enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San
Francisco to New York City.
Arizona
and
Hawaii
are now the only states that don't observe daylight savings time.
Boston
has the worst drivers out of the nation's 200 largest cities.
Kansas City
has the best drivers.
Kansas
produces enough wheat each year to feed everyone in the world for about two
weeks.
Oregon's Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty stacked on
top of each other
The Empire State building has its own zip code.
The Los Angeles Coroner's Office has its own quirky gift shop called Skeletons
in the Closet.
The Library of Congress contains approximately 838 miles of bookshelves long
enough to stretch from
Houston
to
Chicago
.
At 46 letters,
Massachusetts
's
Lake
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
has the longest place name in the
U.S.
(even though it's based on a joke).
The entire
Denver
International
Airport
is twice the size of
Manhattan
.
In 1893, an amendment was proposed to rename the country to the "United
States of Earth."
A highway in
Lancaster
,
California
plays the "William Tell Overture" as you drive over it, thanks to some
well-placed grooves in the road
The total length of
Idaho
's rivers could stretch across the
United States
about 40 times.
The town of
Centralia
,
Pennsylvania
has been on fire for 55 years.
The one-woman town of
Monowi
,
Nebraska
is the only officially incorporated municipality with a population of 1. The
sole, 83-year-old resident is the city's mayor, librarian, and bartender.
The entire town of
Whittier
, Alaksa lives under one roof.
The number of bourbon barrels in
Kentucky
outnumbers the state's population by more than two million.
Montana
's
Glacier
National Park
has a canine "bark ranger" that helps herd wildlife away from
high-traffic areas.
You can watch more than 100 ponies swim to
Chincoteague
Island
every year in
Virginia
.
In 1943, the temperature in Spearfish,
South Dakota
jumped 49 degrees in two minutes (-4°F to 45°F), one of the most drastic changes on record.
The world's tiniest park is in
Portland
, measuring a mere two feet wide.
The inventor of the Ouija board lived and died in
Baltimore
; his tombstone stands as a reflection of his achievement.
The biggest signature in human history belongs to
Texas
farmer Jimmie Luecke.
The two-mile landmark can be seen from space.
Only one-third of all $100 bills are actually inside the
United States
.
In
Colma
,
California
the dead outnumber the living by nearly 1,000 to 1.
The smallest county in the
U.S.
,
Kalawao
County
on the Hawaiian
island
of
Moloka'i is also a leprosy colony where a few former patients still live.
South Florida
is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild.
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