23 facts across the U.S.
Arizona has a monsoon season where huge amounts of rain might fall very heavily for short periods of time. This creates…
Connecticut's official nickname is "The Constitution State", adopted in 1959 and based on its colonial constitution of 1…
Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, doing so on February 1, 1865, just two day…
Fort Knox in Kentucky has housed the bulk of the United States gold reserves since 1937, currently holding about 147 mil…
Louisiana is the only state in the United States that bases its civil law on the Napoleonic Code, a legal framework inhe…
Mississippi was the last U.S. state to officially ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, and the delay was extrao…
Nebraska is the only state in the United States with a unicameral legislature, meaning its state government operates wit…
Homestead National Historical Park in Beatrice, Nebraska, commemorates the Homestead Act of 1862 — a law that transferre…
New Hampshire holds the first presidential primary election in the nation every four years, a tradition that has given t…
New Hampshire was the first of the original thirteen colonies to establish an independent government separate from Briti…
New Hampshire is one of only two states that have no statewide income tax and no statewide sales tax, the other being Al…
North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union simultaneously on November 2, 1889, when President Grover Cleve…
Oklahoma is the only state in the United States where the grounds of the state capitol building contain active oil wells…
Philadelphia served as the de facto capital of the United States for much of the nation's early history, and both the De…
Rhode Island was the first of the thirteen colonies to declare independence from Britain, doing so on May 4, 1776, two m…
Texas was an independent nation, the Republic of Texas, for nearly ten years between 1836 and 1846. After winning indepe…
Vermont was an independent republic from 1777 to 1791, with its own constitution, currency, postal service, and naturali…
Vermont is one of only four states that prohibit billboards along highways, along with Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii, having…
Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the United States by population, with roughly 8,000 residents, and…
Beneath the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia lies a massive bunker code-named Project Greek Isl…
The Republican Party of the United States was founded in a small white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854…
Wyoming was the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote, doing so in December 1869, more t…
Wyoming is the least populous state in the United States, with fewer than 600,000 residents, and has been the least popu…