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More people live in New York City than in 40 of the 50 states and by using the latest US Census data, just nine states - California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia and Florida - account for half of the entire US population!       The word 'Pennsylvania' is misspelled 'Pensylvania.' on the Liberty Bell. This spelling was one of several acceptable spellings of the name at that time.       Lake Superior's 3 quadrillion gallons are enough to cover both North and South America under a foot of water. Downing half a gallon of water daily, it would still take you 16.4 trillion years to drink Lake Superior. The Big Lake holds as much water as all of the other Great Lakes combined plus three more Lake Eries!       There's a town in Washington with treetop bridges made specifically to help squirrels cross the street. The Nutty Narrows Bridges is squirrel bridges in Longview, Washington engineered to solve traffic fatalities among the local squirrel population. Six squirrel bridges cross the town's streets.       In 1872, Russia sold Alaska to the Unites States for about 2 cents per acre. The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, by a treaty ratified by the US Senate, and signed by President Andrew Johnson. Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, due to the difficulty of living there. Russia sold 1.5 million hectares to America for $7.2 million, or about 2 cents per acre.       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, also known as Monkey Island, and it's not open to humans.       At its base, Hoover Dam is as thick (660 ft.) as two footballs fields measured end-to-end. There is enough concrete in Hoover Dam (4 1/2 million cubic yards) to build a 2 lane road from Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida or a 4 ft. wide sidewalk around the Earth at the Equator!       Kansas is number one in flour milling in the United States. Kansas produces enough wheat each year to bake 36 billion loaves of bread and enough to feed everyone in the world, over six billion people, for about 2 weeks. An acre of Kansas wheat produces enough bread to feed nearly 9,000 people for one day!       Oregon's Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty stacked on top of each other!       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, also known as Lake Webster, is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, United States, with the third longest single word place name in the world, and number one in the United States.       In 1922, a man built a house and all his furniture entirely out of 100,000 newspapers. It was built by Mr. Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer who designed the machines that make paper clips. He did it as a hobby. The structure still stands today in Rockport, Massachusetts.       The entire Denver International Airport is twice the size of Manhattan.

Back in 1893, Lucas Miller proposed abolishing the Army and Navy, wiping out pension laws, and even wanted to amend the U.S. Constitution to rename the United States of America to 'The United States of Earth.'       A highway in Lancaster, California plays the 'William Tell Overture' as you drive over it. Honda's marketing team joined forces with the city to turn a stretch of road on the edge of town into a giant LP that plays the tune you might more readily recognize as the theme to 'The Lone Ranger.' The quarter-mile stretch of Avenue K renamed 'Civic Musical Road' features grooves cut into the pavement in such a way as to make the tires resonate to the classic symphony.       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 Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. At its current rate, it could continue to burn for over 250 years!       The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky outnumbers the state's population by more than two million!       Meet Gracie, Glacier National Park's 'bark ranger'. She is a border collie who helps protect people and herds wildlife away from high-traffic areas.       You can watch more than 100 horses and ponies swim to Chincoteague Island every year in Virginia.       In 1943, the temperature in January in Spearfish, South Dakota jumped 49 degrees in just TWO MINUTES! It rose from -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 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.       The dead outnumber the living by nearly 1,000 to 1 in Colma, California.       South Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild. Crocodiles and alligators belong to a group of reptiles called crocodilians, which are the largest of the living reptiles. Of the 23 different species of crocodilians in the world, 2 species are native to the United States. South Florida is the only place where both of these species coexist.

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