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by Matt Soniak - March 6, 2008 - 12:38 PM


My inbox is already full of fascinating stuff about boundaries, the topic of our weekly Amazing Fact Generator contest, and there’s still time to get your contest entry in. Leave a comment on this post with an amazing fact about boundaries (of any sort), your name and location. If your fact is both amazing and true, we’ll plug it into the Generator and credit it to you. Whoever gives us the most amazing fact will receive a copy of Bono’s On the Move.

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  1. Georgia has more counties than any other state, a total of 159, and every single county except one is named after a person.

    posted by Amy on 3-6-2008 at 4:03 pm

  2. There is only one stoplight in the Forest Hills School District in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.

    posted by Rose on 3-6-2008 at 8:50 pm

  3. the wiorld’s smallest national park is Squaw Island in canadaigua, NY.
    it’s this tiny little island out in the middle of the lake that has, like, 3 trees on it and is probably smaller than most apartment building lawns.
    apparently at one point it was bigger, and you could walk out to it on the sand banks when the lake levels dropped in summer. not anymore, they keep the lake artificially high for boaters. unfortunately this is eroding the island.
    apparently the local tribe would hide all the women and children out there during battles, and they were pretty safe.

    my location is Rochester, NY.

    posted by Sue on 3-7-2008 at 12:00 am

  4. Just a note- one fact states that the Sahara is not the largest dessert, but that Antarctica is. Another (#413) references the Sahara as the world’s largest dessert.

    posted by Tiffany on 3-7-2008 at 9:44 am

  5. This fact has a typo in it–”weatherman” is missing the “r”

    Former Today Show weatheman Willard Scott got an early career boost by portraying Ronald McDonald in commercials.
    submitted by: Rick Aronow Vernon Hills, IL

    And the fact that says tiger’s skin is striped as well as their fur, the same is true for dalmations (pink skin with black skin where the spotted fur is) and for orange-and-black striped domestic cats, and presumably most spotted, striped, or otherwise patterned mammals.

    posted by sporkk on 3-8-2008 at 12:51 pm

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