Strange Facts about the US from Connie

I can absolutely believe the comment regarding Boston drivers. The lake in Massachusetts with the long name is commonly called Lake Webster.

                                 SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE USA

STRANGE FACTS

ABOUT THE USA…

More people live in New York City than

in 40 of the 50 states.

The word “Pennsylvania” is misspelled

on the Liberty Bell.

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

labyrinthso 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

838miles of bookshelves—long enough to stretch

from boston 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).

In 1922, a man built a house and all his furniture

entirely out of 100,000 newspapers. 

The structure still stands

today in Rockport, Massachusetts.

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.

(HEY JJ, ARE YA RELATED? LOL)

The entire town of Whittier, Alaska lives

under one roof.

The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky

outnumbers the state’s population by

more than two million.