26Obese
In 2017, U.S.A. overtook Mexico again as the most obese nation in the world with estimates that 50% of the nation will be obese by 2030.
27. Polio vaccination rates in Seattle is just 81.4% which is worse than Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Algeria, El Salvador, Guyana, Sudan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Yemen, according to the WHO.
28. In Boston, if you report a pothole, you get back both a photo of the filled pothole and a photo of the team that filled it.
29. Montpelier, Vermont is the only United States capital without a McDonald’s.
30. Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S. changed its name in 2016 to Utqiaġvik, its traditional Iñupiaq name.
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31Yreka bakery
In Yreka, California, a bakery operated for 100 years called the Yreka Bakery, which formed a palindrome. When the business closed and a gallery opened in the same spot, they named themselves the Yrella Gallery so that it would also form a palindrome.
32. The United States has military equipment stashed away in large caves (Frigaard Cave) in Norway so that if they need to defend them, the U.S. can just fly in troops and use the prepositioned equipment.
33. The University of Oregon's "O" hand sign is equivalent in American Sign Language to screaming "Vagina."
34. North Carolina's copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, was recovered by an FBI sting operation in 2003.
35. In 2015, the Sacramento Public Library started a “Library of Things”, allowing patrons to check out, among other things, sewing machines and other items that patrons may find useful, but don't need to own long-term.
