According to Mike Rowe on last week’s Dirty Jobs, there are 109 million geoducks in Washington State’s Puget Sound. Don’t ask me how he knows but I know we have a lot.
It’s pronounced gooeyduck, by the way.
Well mainlanders no longer comment on our ability to speak English so well.
Here’s a fun fact. We killed Captain Cook.
:smack: I just figured out your location tag. I knew it said “Hi”, of course, but I was thinking “Hi, how’s it going?”, not “HI” for “Hawaii”.
And an aloha to you too. That’s OK though, I knew it was hard to get.
I tried to get it to spell HAWAII but I couldn’t get those to look nice, ╠╣╔╗╚╩╝╔╗║║
I would like to visit Hawaii some day.
Kingston NY was the first capital of New York State.
Joseph Smith claimed to have some of his first religious visions near Palmyra in New York State.
Smith’s brothers (no relation AFAIK) cough drops were first made in Poughkeepsie NY.
Everyone seems to know that Springfield MA is where basketball was first played. It was also the original home of Smith and Wesson, and the place where the Duryea brothers built their first car, and founded their car company. Also founded in Springfield were the Indian motorcycle company and the Milton Bradley company.
Dr. Seuss, Kurt Russel and Timothy Leary were all born in Springfield, as was Leo Durocher, and Mike Scully (executive producer of The Simpsons).
The building in Cambridge MA where Fig Newtons were first made is now home to luxury loft apartments. A block or two away is the building where until very recently Necco wafers were made, which is now the home of a large biopharmaceutical research facility.
Vernor’s Ginger Ale and **Stroh’s Beer ** are/were Detroit based businesses.
During Prohibition Stroh’s Brewery switched over to making ice cream to keep the company afloat until the right to drink beer and booze was repealed.