- The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
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- The worlds tallest free fall rollercoaster is The Giant Drop located in Australia. The drops is 120 meters which is equivalent to a 39 storey building.
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- Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from "navel" which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah.
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- The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
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- The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.
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- There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station.
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- There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York.
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- Pere Lachaise Cemetary located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.
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- The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.
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- The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum which is located in Wisconsin has the biggest collection of prepared mustards. They have approximately 4,000 different jars and tubes from all over the world.
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- One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet.
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- The world's only museum of Phallology is in Reykjavik, Iceland. Phallology is the the science of the penis.
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- The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois, USA. It was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company as a water tower.
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- Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
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- Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.
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- Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.
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- The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937.
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- The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college.
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- The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world.
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- The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota is so big that it can hold 24,336 school buses.
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- The North of Scotland's oldest inhabited castle is Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.
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