Mildly interesting
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Link to videoGene Simmons
Go to 10:40 where he talks about his mother taking the oath of citizenship.
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Weird stuff about Maine (and other states)
- Maine is the closest US State to Africa. Quoddy Head, Maine sits just 3,154 miles from El Beddouzza, Morocco. For comparison, Florida is more than 4,000 miles from its nearest point on the African continent.
- If you take a road trip through the Lower 48, passing through each state only once, you always end in Maine. That’s because Maine is the only state in the continental United States that borders only one other state.
- More French is spoken in Maine than any state in the United States. When French explorers landed in eastern Canada back in the 1600’s, many of them settled in what is present-day Maine. Their descendants are still there today. It doesn’t hurt bordering two French-speaking Canadian provinces, either.
- Maine is the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States.
- Nobody knows how Maine got its name. All they know is that the name first appeared in writing in 1622.
- Despite the mystery behind its name, Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819.
- Maine is larger than the other 5 New England States combined.
If you visited one island per day, it would take you more than 9 years to visit every island in Maine - At 3,478 miles, Maine’s coastline is longer than California’s (3,427 miles)
- Maine is home to the only desert in New England (40 acres outside Freeport). It formed 11,000 years ago, when a glacier deposited large amounts of sand on the site.
- Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, Maine. The Oregon city’s name was decided on a coin toss between Portland and Boston.
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I moved my land line to VOIP in ~2010. Got rid of it altogether when my MIL died in 2017
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No it’s no longer using POTS and we could remove all the telephone cable in the house and cancel the service.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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