August 2022 Photo Gallery
There is enough water in
Lake Superior
to cover all 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
.
Lake
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubruagungamaugg
in
Massachusetts
has 46 letters and is 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.
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