Michigan has an entire other peninsula that is not at all mitten-shaped that very few people know about. Indeed, it often gets left off maps.
(The above is only partially tongue-in-cheek. I know a lot of people here know about the UP. But one gets tired of explaining to people that there is something north of Mount Pleasant that is still Michigan, or why the term “Northern Michigan” refers to the central part of the state to most Michiganders, or that I really don’t live in Wisconsin.)
The General Electric Company offices in Schenectady asked for and received the zip code 12345.
Schenectady is the home of the only highway in New York state where the exit numbers indicate the mileage – I-890*. Few notice the fact, since the exits are all about one mile apart.
Two presidents attended Union College in Schenectady. Chester A. Arthur got a degreee there. Jimmy Carter took courses there when in the navy. Due to the nature of the courses, the college has no record he attended.
*Usually, NYS highway exits are numbered consecutively (with A or B added as new exits are put in).
Michigan is the site of the worst school-based mass murder in US history, with 45 dead and 58 injured - and it took place nearly 90 years ago.
I grew up in Toronto from 1976-1982. My first job was delivering mail on Yonge St., and my one and only tattoo was from a shop on Danforth 
Thanks for the street names blast from the past! Bloor St. gets so many people, no?
Washington State bid to be named Columbia but was renamed to avoid confusion with the District Of Columbia. That worked out well.
Tacoma beat Seattle when it was designated the Western Terminus for the Northern Pacific Railway and named itself “They City of Destiny.”
*neither of these are probably little known, but I didn’t know them until I moved here.
Integrated circuits, German chocolate cake and the frozen margarita machine were all invented in Dallas. Weed eaters, condensed milk, screwpull wine openers and underwire bras were all invented in Houston.
The Galveston, TX area has the records for the most deadly industrial accident in the US (Texas City Disaster, 1947), and the most deadly natural disaster in the US (1900 hurricane).
My birth town of Beverly Shores, IN, population ~ 650, began its life as a planned resort development community, named for the prospective developer’s daughter, Beverly, and designed to attract wealthy Chicagoans. To get his project off to a fast start, the developer purchased 16 buildings from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and barged them across Lake Michigan to be installed, intact, at the center of the new town. The Great Depression intervened before much else could be built, so the town remained a strange little haphazard grouping of lake homes and wild land, centered around a beautifully designed and coordinated city center.
As nearly all of the land around it was industrialized by the steel industry and its attendant supplier companies, there is much to thank the unsuccessful developer for. Thanks to complicated land ownership issues, miles and miles of lakeshore remained in its natural, unspoiled state for decades. Much of the current Indiana National Lakeshore was carved out of the abandoned development land.
Georgia is the largest state, in land area, east of the Mississippi River.
The largest mink and fox ranch east of the Mississippi was just southeast of Douglas, Georgia.
We used to visit Central Beach every summer.
What was the last all-white team to win the NCAA football title?
Our local boys, the 1969-70 Longhorns of the University of Texas at Austin.
Arkansas:
Hot Springs is not in Hot Spring County.
Benton is not in Benton County.
Yellville is not in Yell County.
Washington is not in Washington County.
Garland City is not in Garland County.
Sounds like the saying about Indiana…
South Bend is in the North
North Vernon is in the South
and French Lick isn’t as fun as it sounds.
What else can you expect from a state where the river runs north? 
Crabtree Falls in Virginia, just a few short miles from my home, is the tallest waterfall in the US east of the Mississippi River.
Yeah pretty much Mt Pleasant or even Higgins and Houghton Lake
People in Kent County/Grand Rapids think Newaygo County is “up north”…Newaygo county is the county just north of Kent
There is a Michigan City but its in Indiana
There are tons of roads across the US named Michigan Ave, why?
If you did not know Michigan was the “Mitten State” what rock have you been living under?
Michigan, wait two seconds and the weather will change drastically from warm to cold
Its a Water Winter Wonderland surrounded by 4 of the 5 great lakes
Lake Superior it is said, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy-The Edmund Fitzgerald sank right off of White fish point
The state has the best two college towns/football teams: MSU and the U of M! Go Blue!
Wondering how many Michiganders even know about this.
The entire town of Wallace, Idaho, county seat of Shoshone County is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The intersection of Sixth and Bank Streets in Wallace is the official Center of the Universe.
Cleveland, OH was the original Motor City - The automotive capital of the world. In the turn of the 20th century there were 80+ automotive makes including luxury marques such as Peerless Motors. The steering wheel, 8 cylinder motor, modern clutch, and starters were all introduced in Cleveland-made automobiles. Even the term “automobile” originated in Cleveland. The first mail truck in the US was a Cleveland-built Winton, as was the first Presidential auto. Cleveland was also the birthplace of the AAA.
What disqualifies Mill Mountain Zoo in Roanoke, VA from this, admittedly small, club?
Hell is for sale in Michigan.
http://mashable.com/2016/03/11/hell-michigan-sale/#NSGfnh029aqz
And if you don’t want to own Hell in its entirety, you can buy one square inch of Hell for the price of…you guessed it…$6.66.