1 - More people live in New York City than in 40 of the 50 states.
2 - The word "Pennsylvania" is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
3 - There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid.
4 - There's a town in Washington with treetop bridges made specifically to help squirrels cross the street.
5 - In 1872, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for about 2 cents per acre.
6 - It would take you more than 400 years to spend a night in all of Las Vegas's hotel rooms.
7 - Western Michigan is home to a giant lavender labyrinth so big you can see it on Google Earth.
8 - There's an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of South Carolina called Morgan Island, and it's not open to humans.
9 - There's enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.
10 - Arizona and Hawaii are now the only states that don't observe daylight savings time.
11 - Boston has the worst drivers out of the nation's 200 largest cities. Kansas City has the best drivers.
12 - Kansas produces enough wheat each year to feed everyone in the world for about two weeks.
13 - Oregon's Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty stacked on top of each other.
14 - The Empire State building has its own zip code.
15 - The Los Angeles Coroner's Office has its own quirky gift shop called "Skeletons in the Closet.”
16 - The Library of Congress contains approximately 838 miles of bookshelves—long enough to stretch from Houston to Chicago.
17 - At 46 letters, Massachusetts's Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggcha ubunagungamaugg has the longest place name in the U.S. (even though it's based on a joke).
18 - 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.
19 - The entire Denver International Airport is twice the size of Manhattan.
20 - In 1893, an amendment was proposed to rename the country to the "United States of Earth.”
21 - A highway in Lancaster, California, plays the "William Tell Overture" as you drive over it, thanks to some well-placed grooves in the road.
22 - The total length of Idaho's rivers could stretch across the United States about 40 times.
23 - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has been on fire for 55 years.
24 - 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.
25 - The entire town of Whittier, Alaska lives under one roof.
26 - The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky outnumbers the state's population by more than two million.
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