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North Charleston, South Carolina – North Charleston is one of only four places in the world for the manufacture and assembly of wide-body commercial aircraft.

Waterloo, ON is nicknamed the Quantum Valley (like the Silicon Valley) due to the large amounts of research going on in the field of quantum mechanics and computing at both the Perimeter Institute (of which Stephen Hawking is a member), and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

Mesa, Arizona – 7.8/10 too many Mormons

Austin TX: home to north america's largest urban bat population, and is the only city to still run moonlight towers.

The city I actually live in, Vancouver, Washington: It's connected to Portland.

As for Portland…

Holland, Michigan – It's home to a castle-style building that was said to inspire L. Frank Baum's design of the Emerald City.

Mesquite, Texas – Mesquite is home to the Mesquite Championship Rodeo, and also has this radio tower in its area:

It's apparently illegal to keep your horse in a bathtub in South Carolina.

Northern Utah – 0.116/10 way too many Mormons

Eastleigh – Where they flew the first Spitfire flew

Just the fact that there's a city in Washington named Vancouver could be considered an interesting fact. Must get really confusing considering its proximity to Vancouver BC.

It does get confusing. If I say I'm from Vancouver or Washington while I'm on vacation somewhere else in the country, most people think I'm talking about BC and DC respectively. My friends and I have joked about wearing a shirt with this design when travelling to eliminate the confusion.

I live in Mexico.
A place that is well know to be the most peaceful city of all the country.

Well this happened

And most ironic thing is that the place of the fight is in memory of the peace of the city.

That street is now called "Depressing Street"

Chicago, IL – The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Quick Facts:
- 2nd largest city in Michigan
- Home and burial place of President Gerald R. Ford
- There's a yearly contest called ArtPrize where thousands of hipsters enter insane art in an attempt to win $200,000

Thats all done in pencil

They moved the Loch Ness Monster in front of the zoo

- The city held a lip dub that broke a world record and was called "the greatest music video ever made" by Roger Ebert

- There was also the worlds longest inflatable waterslide

Our official state animal is done dead :/

Our city was from the middle-ages,
One of our churches were close to a christian church, and historians found out that we yes, indeed we have ancient latin shitposting.

Sven <3 God

I also live in Washington, and I'd like to point out that Vancouver (WA) is as far away from the Canadian border as you can get.

And as for my city- despite being moderately sized, it had never had a murder committed within its borders in its entire history. Until about a year ago.
When I moved there.
This is my life.

Norwalk, California
The Golf'n'Stuff scene from Karate Kid was filmed here

Dallas, Texas – We came the closest to starting an American anarchy in 1963.