What's an interesting fact about your state or country?

[AndrésC64]

I live in Michigan. Did you know that there is enough water in the five Great Lakes to cover the entire continental US in 9.5 ft (2.9 m) of water?

[DizzyDesii]

I've never been a fan of geography. If it ain't about casinos (prob 15+), beaches, or theme parks, i ain't about it. But yea my state had a lot of casinos, a nasty ass beach, and no theme parks

[AndrésC64]

Nevada has a beach?

[DizzyDesii]

Nevada is my getaway. Im straight MS southern gal

[purplepoppy]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch does not have 58 letters as claimed on every website, there are only 51 (ll is one letter, ch is one letter, ng is also one letter but here it is n and g not ng)

The oldest town Caerfyrddin (carmarthen) translates into Merlin's fortress.

The popular holiday destination, the mumbles gets it's name from the French les mamelles, meaning "the breasts" because it french saillors thought it looks like a pair of tits.

The modern decimal counting system comes from Patagonia, Argentina. The traditional vigesimal system (based on 20 rather than 10) is still used for dates and ordinal numbers.

[Th3ft]

I don’t know how interesting or cool it is but I’m in New Hampshire and we have one of the highest pecked mountains on this side of the Mississippi. Anyways I think the cool part is some crazy goon climes up back in the mid 1800s and built one of the funnest hotels/mountain lodges in the country. They eventually gave it its own zip code and built a set of train tracks up to it so that mail could all be delivered up at the lodge. We often had presidents staying for a month or more just hidden away on top a mountain.

[AndrésC64]

That's cool!

[Th3ft]

Thanks for the MHO

[Nintendo-64]

I am from Bursa, Turkey. Its where Ottoman empire was founded. It served as the capital city of Ottoman empire until the conquest of Istanbul in 1453

[AndrésC64]

Cool!

[menina]

" Did you know that there is enough water in the five Great Lakes to cover the entire continental US in 9.5 ft (2.9 m) of water?" - No, I didn't know that but it's interesting.

There's a plant that only exists in my country. It's called "Welwitschia Mirabilis".

It looks weird but it's a real plant

[AndrésC64]

Cool.

[menina]

Thanks.

[petitedollbabee]

New Zealand has a hill with the worlds longest name - Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki. Which translates into English as “the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains known as ‘landeater’, played his flute to his loved ones.”

[AndrésC64]

😃 Well, it certainly is descriptive!

[Still-alive]

If California were a sovereign nation (2022), it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, behind Germany and ahead of India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

[Nikki1989]

We invented a lot of things including the ultrasound, the tank, football, the refrigerator, the pre-paid postage, the BlackBox on airplanes, lawn mowers with engines, smoke alarms, aspirin, the pacemaker, and penicillin.

[Blueeyes81]

My state is actually flatter than a pancake. But to be fair when a pancakes proportions are blown up to the size of the US then the entire country is flatter by comparison.

[AndrésC64]

Florida?

[Blueeyes81]

Kansas

[AndrésC64]

Okay. I was debating between Florida and one of the Midwest states.

[SaoirseS]

Hey now, we (KS) rank down at 7th when it comes to flat. Depends on what part of the state you live in.

[XXblack88]

Hmm 🤔 Oklahoma is home to a lot of country singers.

[AndrésC64]

I'm not sure if I've ever been to Oklahoma. I think we may have passed through it on the way back from our road trip to California.

[XXblack88]

@AndrésC64 your not missing anything

[AndrésC64]

😆😆

[AviatorTom]

Benjamin Franklin campaigned to have the turkey named the national bird of the US. Many people feel it was fortunate that he was overruled and the majestic Bald Eagle became bird.

[Phoenix98]

My state is Kansas and a fun fact about us in we once grew and produced so much wheat in one year that you could have given everyone on the planet 2 loads of bread.

[SaoirseS]

I live in Kansas. What’s most interesting about it is we’re not Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, or Florida.

[NathanDavis]

Texas is of course... the state with most horses in America (around 1 million) and also the most cows... lol

[Cherry234]

New York City has the cleanest tap water. That's the first thing that comes to mind.

[blissinanarchy1]

My state has Philly (The best city). We got gang bangers and Amish. You can get -20 in the winter here, and 120 in the summer.

[docster]

I've heard that my state of Missouri borders the most states. Seven.

[slatyb]

Cool fact. I love in Seattle. We are farthest north than most Canadians.

[BlueScorpio]

NE? Ugh... we have a lot corn and farms?

[AndrésC64]

I remember driving through Nebraska on our road trip to California. Yep, lots of corn and farmlands. 😆

[BlueScorpio]

No ever comes here for to vacation. It's so freaking boring lol

[BLP11520]

I left Michigan in 1985, the economy is awful

[loveslongnails]

Michigan has more lighthouses than Maine

[Guardian45]

I live in the second largest country in the world.