Day Brightener – Interesting Facts And Great Pictures – Some Nice Stuff…

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The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky outnumbers the
state’s
population by more than two million.
The total length of Idaho’s rivers could stretch across the United States about 40 times.
A highway in Lancaster, California plays the “William Tell Overture” as you drive over it, thanks to some well-placed grooves in the road .
In 1893,
an amendment was proposed
to rename the country
to the “United States
of Earth.”
The entire Denver International Airport is twice the size of Manhattan
At 46 letters, Massachusetts’s Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchauhas the longest place name in the U.S.(even though it’s based on a joke)
The Library of Congress contains approximately 838 miles of bookshelves—long enough to stretch from Houston to Chicago.
The Empire State building has its own zip code.

Oregon’s Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty
stacked on top of each other.
Kansas produces enough wheat each year to feed everyone in the world for about two weeks.
Boston has the worst drivers out of the nation’s 200 largest cities. Kansas Cityhas the best drivers.

Arizona and Hawaii are now the only states that don’t observe daylight savings time.
here’s enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.
It would take you more than 400 years to spend a night in all of Las
Vegas’ hotel rooms.
In 1872, Russia sold Alaska to the Unites States for about 2 cents per
acre.
There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South
America in one foot of liquid.
The word
“Pennsylvania” is misspelled
on the Liberty
Bell.
More people live in New York City than in 40 of the 50 states.

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