26Alligator meat
The Archbishop of New Orleans ruled that Alligator meat is classified as fish, so Catholics can eat it on Fridays during Lent.
27. The first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston in 1860. The photo, made from a hot air balloon, is titled: “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.”
28. Los Angeles was hit with a devastating and deadly series of intentionally set fires in the 1980s and 90s. They finally arrested the arsonist who turned out to be the Arson Inspector charged with investigating the fires.
29. 94% of people who live in Minneapolis are within a 10 minute walk to a park.
30. The infamous Great Seattle Fire of 1889 also killed 1 million rats, which completely eliminated the town’s major rodent problem.
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31Homeless children
In the mid-1990s homeless children in Miami developed a vast, elaborate, and consistent mythology that spread by oral tradition throughout the community as a coping mechanism.
32. In 1964 white business leaders in Atlanta refused to buy tickets to an event honoring recent Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King. Coca-Cola recognized the potential PR disaster and threatened to leave the city unless people attended. The event sold out the next day.
33. Because of the number of low-hanging power lines in San Francisco, the city's fire department still uses handmade wooden ladders, made by on-staff master ladder makers.
34. In 1886 workers in Chicago went on general strike to rally for an 8-hour day. Later, it became International Workers' Day celebrated worldwide, except in the USA.
