Whats a cool fact about your town? Options

[Tyweezy]

Dont post your town name, unless its like a huge city. (NYC, BOSTON, SAN FRAN, LA. ETC)

Well Snapple originated from my town. =]

I guess thats why all our school sells is snapple?

[*mona lisa*]

I live in Etobicoke, Toronto, Canada. A cool fact? I don't know. Most people butcher the pronunciation. And that's a fact. Haha.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

My town is home to St. Francis Prep, the largest Catholic high school in the US.

[Tyweezy]

Then why do you go to York?

[ESTRELLA]

The Queen Mary
Long Beach, CA

[BabiiJay]

There's no Burger King down here. Thats about the most interesting thing. Well besides the fact Jamie Foxx grew up near here. Thats all tho. Amazing..eh?

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

Then why do you go to York?

Because I don't like Catholic schools.
And I don't like overcrowded schools either. I had the choice of going to either the Cardozo DaVinci program or York and I chose York 'cause it only has 406 kids, while Cardozo has nearly 4,000. St. Francis has about the same amount of kids as 'Dozo.

Besides, the SSHSs are better than any other schools in NYC, haha.

[mznikki]

our town has various commericals and movies shot here...such as parts of World Trade Center, and betty crocker commericals. oh and the name of our town is named after a meeting place where the native americans used to hold meetings on...this big rock which is still here today.

[*Libertie*]

My town is home to the historic Route 66, criminals used the port to smuggle themselves and illegal goods without getting caught. :P

[kimmytree]

Uhmm... I dont think there's really any cool facts about where I live.

Alfalfa from the Little Rascals went to my school though. ;D

[Tyweezy]

^^ thats cool.

wasnt the world trade center filmed in new york.

[Smoogrish]

Uh. Derwood isn't recognized by the US Census Bureau. And we have MS-13 gang members in our school.

[mznikki]

^^ thats cool.

wasnt the world trade center filmed in new york.

I didn't say all of it was, some of the suburb scenes were shot in my town in the barber shop, some houses and one of the churches here, andnicholas cage's character,from what I herd was from the suburbs, I'm 100% sure about that becuase I refuse to watch the movie, but it is true. plus movies aren't always shot in thier "setting" can't always assume that, yea I know world trade center, but ny city doesn't have the suburbs.

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

hmm....nothing. lol. no really nothing. umm in a town near by jaws was shot there

[HakunaMatata]

it's one of the top ten most populous cities in America.

[magicfann]

Rockville
....



x3o gaming center is based in our city =D

but thats it -.-

[Smoogrish]

HAHAHA JEFFREY SHUT UP. loser.

[saywhat_sayme]

Philadelphia:

It has pretty murals
And it's sexy
And it's amazing
And it has a "Gayborhood"

[pandamonium]

my vagina has the biggest opening in the world. ahahahhahah jk jk



umm my name is a cut off of Hernandez backwards. lol its always my name.

[AngelinaTaylor]

My HOMEtown: it's the only place in the world where a rose festival is held. The roses that grow there are, I think, the only one of their kind; a special type, that was cultivated in our country after many years of production and development. We even choose a Queen Rose every year :) It's the center of the biggest production of rose oil in the world.

Pretty awesome for such a small town. It's commonly known as "the valley of roses"..

[jackizzle]

Hmm, well I looked up my town/city on wikipedia and it turns out that Aly and AJ Michalka were born here. I don't know if they still do though. And also Daryl and Evan Sabara(the spy kid...) go to my school. They're pretty chill. My town is pretty boring though...

[evaleen]

I looked up my hometown too lmao.

I live in Daly City, CA, US. One of the only majority-Asian cities in the United States[mainly Filipinos and Chinese]. Also borders S.F.

[SarahxJoy]

- It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.
- It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
- Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year.
- Las Vegas has the highest number of unlisted phone numbers of any U.S. city.
- Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married at the original Aladdin hotel.

Lol, had to put that last one in there. Elvis and Vegas just go together, hand in hand.

[*StanleyThePanda*]

That we all suck at life.
hahaha no, I dont know.
I'm sure there are a few things, but for some reason I cant think of anything right now. :\

[Tyweezy]

Woah, celebrities actually go to your school? Dosent everyone like bother them?

[mouse_3k]

vienna, VA. its stupid and nothing cool bout it besides the fact tht the police is up everyone's asses and will pull u ova even at 5mph ova the limit...bastards

[edit] just remembered, in one episode of Nip Tuck Vienna,VA was mentioned when christian, Sean, and Julia was lookin online to find the records of Ava to prove she was a man...

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

so i decided to look up my town and this is what i got.



-As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 19,992

Famous people-

• Jason Elam - National Football League kicker
• Carolyn Murphy - internationally acclaimed model
• Danny Wuerffel - Heisman Trophy Winner, quarterback
• Jason Mellott - Acclaimed Producer

-The economy of is driven by two primary factors: the military, and prostitution.



-For example, the 'Mother of All Bombs' (MOAB) was first tested at Eglin AFB on March 11, 2003.





Edit:so i decided to look up where my mom lived when she was a teenager in huntsville, alabama. i was born around there. and look at all the famous people.




Notable Residents/Famous Natives

• Tallulah Bankhead, famous actress
• William B. Bankhead, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936-1940; father of Tallulah Bankhead. The local Bankhead Parkway is named in his honor.
• Bo Bice, American Idol Runner-Up
• David B. Birney, Union Army general and son of James G. Birney.
• James G. Birney, Southern abolitionist leader and presidential candidate of the Liberty Party (anti-slavery) in 1840 and 1845.
• William Birney, Union Army general and son of James G. Birney.
• Kyndel Brown, WNBA Most Valuable Player, 2000
• Stewart Cink, PGA Tour Golfer
• Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Union Army general.
• Howard Cross, All American Tight End for the University Of Alabama and New York Giants.
• Kenneth Darby, star running back for the University of Alabama
• Dr. Jan Davis, former Astronaut; among crew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1992,1994 and 1997.
• Erik DeBolt, International Pop Star
• Bobby Eaton, professional wrestler
• Russel Erskine, chairman of the Studebaker Corp.
• Andrew Jackson Hamilton, appointed Union military governor of Texas (with rank of general) by Abraham Lincoln (1862) and appointed Reconstruction governor of Texas by Andrew Johnson (1865-66).
• Cully Hamner, comic book artist.
• Darrell C. Hazelrig, Filmmaker
• John S. Hendricks, founder and chairman of the Discovery Channel.
• Alex Hice, Olympic Water Polo gold medalist, 2004
• Homer Hickam, Author
• Margaret Hoelzer, 2004 Olympic swimmer
• Jimmy Key, former MLB All-Star pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees.
• Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery, respectfully dubbed the "dean of the Civil Rights Movement" by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a Huntsville native, and co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mark McGwire, Major League slugger, got his start with the Huntsville Stars.
• Jimmy Means, NASCAR driver
• John Hunt Morgan, general in the army of the Confederate States of America.
• Edward Asbury O'Neal, governor of Alabama 1882-86. Appointed general in the army of the Confederate States of America, but commission never delivered.
• Chris O'Neil, 1986 Goodwill Games gold medalist in Swimming
• C.N. Parker, author of the controversial The Whipping of the Juggalos
• John Piersma, 1996 Olympic Swimmer.
• David M. Pope, musician, producer, writer.
• Brian Reynolds, game developer best known for designing Sid Meier's Civilization II
• Bryan Shelton, professional tennis player
• Mark Spencer, Creator of the open source Gaim instant messenger, and the Asterisk open source PBX
• John Stallworth, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and 2002 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Nick Torres, Cassino (band)
• Dr.Wernher von Braun, German rocket scientist
• Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder.
• Leroy Pope Walker, first Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America and briefly a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.
• Jones M. Withers, major general in the army of the Confederate States of America.

[kimmytree]

Hahaah. I looked stuff up, and I realized that I totally forgot about some things. I knew about Publix, but I had no clue that there were Hindus around here.

- home of one of the first Hindu temples in the US
- home of Publix headquarters (major grocery store in southeast - first location was here)
- first Red Lobster was opened here

[x-klutzibabi-x]

My city is known as the "Air Capital" of the U.S.

Pizza Hut, White Castle, Coleman, and Koch industeries began here.

A scene from the movie "Elizabethtown" was shot here.

And the BTK killings happened in this city.

[31miracles]

Lancaster, PA

people pronounce it wrong

amish land, site of the amish school shooting

[minioligo]

ATL fools

Georgia Aquarium, The Varsity, Coca Cola, CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Weather Channel, TBS, Home Depot, Bellsouth, Delta, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (busiest airport in the world), blahbalhbalhalh.

Tons of rap/hip-hop artists & celebrities, but eh I don't think you needed me to tell you that one.

[lanbexx]

the most bicycle friendly town in the entire world. Platinum award.

[iDecay]

Uh, the original inhabitants here were Shoshone Indians, later renamed the Gabrielino Indians by the Spaniards.

[IWGP]

Well my town is probably the most boring town of all.

[EddieV]

That my love was born there <3

[datass]

Well, my city never sleeps

[nezumi]

Mine does all the time...

[breakingdawn]

My town has the best ice cream in Connecticut. Seriously. They have all the awards. And we also have the second best ice cream. That is strange.

[DarkImpressions]

Umm well I live in Memphis currentl and I dont like it but I guess a cool fact would be that Elvis used to live here and Umm Im getting ready to move to South Carolina with all my family and umm i dont know any cool facts about there but I love it there

[smoke]

I have no idea. My town is really small. I think part of some movie was filmed near here. Maybe? Haha. I'm not sure. I'll have to look into it because I can't remember.

[mznikki]

so in addition to what i said..i'm adding on.. i looked it up haha =]

+The TV show Ed filmed some scenes in my town.

+In October 2005, many scenes of prominent locations in town were shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Oliver Stone

+This town is probably famous among video gamers, mainly because it is the headquarters of the game developer Imagineering, once a developer of console games. In every game they had produced, the following message always appears in the title screen and in the instruction booklet: "Developed by Imagineering Inc., my town". This blatant advertising practice of displaying their hometown in their games is considered a very rare practice among game developers and is probably why this town become famous among video gamers.

+Unlike most suburban towns whose names have little or nothing to do with reality, the town i live in was actually settled around an enormous rock left by retreating glaciers in a small valley (glen). From a 1985 The New York Times article, My town "is named for a 570-ton boulder, believed to have been deposited by a glacier, that stands at the northern end of Rock Road*, the town's main street. Called Pamackapuka, or Stone from Heaven, by the Delaware Indians, it served as a base for Indian signal fires and later as a trail marker for colonists."

oh and the guy holding the record for teaching over 5,000 days of school straight (he taught summer school and teaches in 2 colleges along with my high school) teaches in my town. its kinda gross..he'd come to school sick, he never missed a day of school.. i didn't like him though he never taught me anything.

[Mikael]

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[kynacolada]

Uhh Snoop Dogg used to live near my city

[moninja]

*was wiki'ed*

Everett is home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 787, and 777 in the largest building in the world by volume at 116.5 million cubic feet (13.3 million cubic meters).

pretty cool.

LOOKATTHIS:

Crime rates

In 2004, Everett had 62 rapes, which works out to 63.4 rapes per 100,000 people. The national average rate for 2004 was 32.2 rapes per 100,000 people.

Everett also had a typically high car theft rate in 2004 as the rest of the Puget Sound region, with 1709.9 per 100,000 population.[1]

The murder rate in 2004 was 3.1 per 100,000, lower than Seattle's 4.2 per 100,000 and the national average of 5.5 per 100,000.[2]

[koreansaga510]

We have a Nevada Day.. We got all these casinos and stuff, too.

[Anna-x-chan]

In Elkridge Maryland, theres a place called 'ghost road' and its said if your in a car and go by there your car stops and you hear weird noises. I'm going there for Halloween. The history on it was there was a lady driving by on Halloween night and some guy shot her.

[Puddles]

The music video for "Super Hyphy" a song by Bay Area rapper Keak Da Sneak was filmed at Bowditch Middle School. R&B singer Keyshia Cole was also featured in the music video.

My school :] haha my friends were in the videooo

[misoshiru]

My town...was built by the college I'm at.

[tabbyradburn]

Got lots.
We have a sign that's like the Hollywood sign.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
THE INDUSTRIAL CITY

Pretty awesome. :]

We also have some of the best teen directors/editors in the state here. My high school is also the only one in the area that has video announcements that are live and ran by the students only.

[Siena Jade]

Toronto

-tallest free-standing structure in the world (CN Tower)
-the world's largest film festival open to the public (Toronto International Film Festival)
-the most multicultural city in the world
-University of Toronto is consistently ranked as the best in Canada and in the top 20 worldwide
-Yonge Street was previously considered to be the longest street in the world
-Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Raptors are currently Canada's only MLB and NBA franchises

and uh...yay for the TTC :]

[no-name]

Richmond..hmmm

a lot of important things in US history happened here..

was the capital of the south in the civil war

set on fire in 1865

most densely populated city in the Southern US

there is like a bazillion universities in the area

there is probably a lot more but i really don't care

[sarangxai]

My city has the lowest college attendance rate in California O_O

[aubbob]

kahuku, northshore, o'ahu.

best waves on all the island.
the show north shore was filmed here.
the show lost is partially filmed here, (stupid idiots wrecked the beach!)
kahuku highschool pretty much has the best athletics in the state of hawaii,
mostly accomplished in football.
lots of pro football players came from my town, as well as jack johnson the singer.

[rAwritsgWeg]

Its supposedly the biggest town in the world
Cuz We hamstowners own!

[hiromi]

Um, part of Meet the Parents was filmed there...

'The scenes at the "Surf and Turf" restaurant were filmed at a Port Washington, NY restaurant called "Louie's". The car racing scenes between Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro were also filmed in downtown Port Washington. Also, the scene where Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro go shopping is in Port Washington at Salem Drugs.' - IMDb

that's it.

[David1]

My town has Murals. My town is famous for all the Murals. People come from out of state to look at them. shoot..I dont even walk down the street to look at them things.

[*My Cinderella.*]

Omarion performed at the queens center mall.

[smileeetina]

I live in Cali. And 1 out 3 people are overweight.
And

The Queen Mary
Long Beach, CA

Hahaha. And Snoop dogg, Willie McGinest, Warren G, Nate Dogg, Cameron Diaz, and GC Pro's Paul Henry attended my highschool.
What you know about 'summer time in the LBC' eh?

[-sincerely]

is there like, a site to find the facts? :o

[mznikki]

is there like, a site to find the facts? :o

Wikipedia or google it.