• The American flags you see lining Magic Kingdom’s Main Street are each missing a star or a stripe so that they don’t need to be raised and lowered each day or lowered to half-mast.
  • Arizona produces enough cotton every year to provide two t-shirts for every American
  • Alaska has more than 200 peony farms
  • Often portrayed as a perfect rectangle, Colorado actually has a small kink on the western side
  • Kansas has been measured and is officially flatter than the average pancake
  • Sixteen of the 25 windiest cities in the U.S. are in Massachusetts
  • Twice a year the setting sun aligns perfectly with Manhattan’s streets lighting the east-west roads in an orange glow
  • People in Oregon are the nation’s fastest talkers
  • There are only two sets of escalators in the entire state of Wyoming