These 12
Surprising Things You Know Know About America The United States is a superpower
that is always in the spotlight and one of the major mecca in various sectors
around the world. If you like the international news, surely the United States
never escaped the discussion everywhere. Exciting from it, there are 12 things
unique facts that you do not know about united States you know! Just check here
yes!
1. Post office
floating in Michigan? Michigan is the only place in the world that has a
floating post office. J.W. Westcott II is the only ship in the world to deliver
mail to ships while they are still sailing. They have been in operation for 125
years. Florida has two rivers that are named. Florida is the only country in
the world that has two rivers of the same name. It's in North Central Texas
(Madison area) and Withlacoochee in Central Florida. They do not have any
equations, other than the name alone.
2. The stunning
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge is painted in red,
but is called gold because of the sun. The steel cables are long enough for the
earth's needs 3 times. If the United States Navy obeyed their wishes, the
bridge could have been painted in black and yellow stripes to make the ships
clearly visible. The Golden Gate Bridge is the most perpetuated bridge in
photographs around the world.
3. Arizona has
more mountains than Switzerland. Arizona has more parks and other national
monuments, more mountains from Switzerland and more golf courses from Scotland.
4. The largest
Chinese community outside of China. Chinatown San Francisco is a chinatown seed
in North America and is the largest Chinese community outside of China (more
than 100,000 in 2000 census records).
5. View from
Empire State Building.
On a clear
day, you can see the 5 states from the top of the Empire State Building in New
York City. The five states are New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania.
6. The
Chicago River used to flow in the opposite direction.
The Chicago
River, now flowing away from Lake Michigan, used to flow in the opposite
direction. Between 1898 and 1900, the digging engineers eventually became known
as the main ship and canal channel connecting the Chicago River with the
Mississippi River. This causes the water to reverse in its flow.
7. Hoover
Dam is much bigger than the giant Pyramids of Giza.
Hoover Dam
is the largest public works project ever built in the United States and is in
greater structured volume than Egypt's largest pyramid. The height of this dam
is 221.4 meters, while the length of the dam is 379 meters.
8. The only
golf course with a burial ground in the center is in Montana.
Harlowton's
old grave located in Montana is in the middle of Jawbone Creek Golf Course and
the condition is only one in the world. Two of the sand traps have logs
overlooking it, one of them being called 'The Devil's Dungeon' or an
underground fi re dungeon.
9. Utah is
best in many ways.
Out of all
50 states; Utah has the largest number of computer software companies, one of
the four largest numbers of biomedical companies, the highest young population,
one of the highest birth rates, the second lowest death rate, the population
with the highest percentage of healthy people, the highest literacy (literacy)
The highest high school and the highest number of population that graduated
from college.
10. The only
diamond mining operating in the United States.
The only
diamond mining still operating in the United States is Crater of Diamonds State
Park located in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. It is also the world's only
diamond-producing site open to the public. Visitors can pick up and save any
diamonds they find. Interested in playing and hunting diamonds there?
11.
The first concrete expressway in the world. In 1909, the Wayne area (Detroit,
Michigan) built the first concrete highway 1 mile long at first, on Woodward
Avenue between 6-7 miles. Previously, the streets were filled with rocks and
often horses were hired to pull cars out of mud puddles. The builders of the
roads in the vicinity and from a distance came to see how the concrete could
survive strong under heavy vehicles in those days. Total construction costs US
$ 13,537 or about 181 million rupiah. That's 12 surprising things that most of
you do not know about the United States. Which other country do you wish to
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