AMAZING USA
1. All 8 BILLION people in the world could fit inside Texas and have a nice small farm. (That’s if they could farm parts of west Texas. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=curt+locklear&crid=2R0O4AJFXKJRK&sprefix=curt+lock%2Caps%2C121&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_9_ts-doa-p
2.The US has over 1000 tornadoes on average every year, more than any other nation on earth.
3. The US capital was initially in New York City. That’s where George Washington was first sworn in as president.
4. Montana has the shortest river in the world. The Roe River is 200 feet long.
5. Some skyscrapers are so big with so many offices; they have their own zip codes.
6. Death Valley is truly the hottest location on earth, maintaining the longest run of super high temperatures.
7, Watch for BLACK FRIDAY OFFERS soon for my books. Not geography, but still interesting.
8. Lake Superior holds ten percent of the world’s fresh water. The USA also has more lakes than any other country.
9. On a clear day, if you stand on the farthest out Aleutian Island, Alaska, you can see Russia.
10. The river called the NEW RIVER in the Blue Ridge mountains is believed to be by archaeologists to be the oldest
river in the northern hemisphere, actually older than the continent itself.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST -Irene Triplett was the last person to receive a CIVIL WAR survivor’s benefit pension. It was
73.13 a month. She died in 2020. I know that has nothing to do with geography, but since I write Civil War sagas, I just put it in.
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