While we are on the subject of cool states. Michigan is pretty interesting as well.




Grand Rapids was the first city in the U.S. to put fluoride in their water.

The world’s largest weather vain in located in Montague. It stands 48 feet tall and weighs 3,500 pounds. Its wind arrow is 26 feet long.

The first state police radio system in the world was established in 1929 by the Michigan State Police.

In 1939, the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car.

Eau Claire holds the annual International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship contest. The record set in 1988, was for spitting 72 feet, 7 1/2 inches.

Michigan has the only floating post office in the world. The J.W. Westcott II delivers mail to ships still underway.

Spanning five miles between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, The Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridges in the world.

The first people in the nation to receive assigned phone numbers lived in Detroit in 1879.

Singing sand can be found on the beaches of Grand Haven. The sand particles make a whistling sound as you walk upon them.


Michigan has 116 lighthouses and navigational lights.


The first soda pop made in the U.S., Vernor’s ginger ale, was created by accident in 1866 in Detroit.

Henry Ford, who produced his first experimental car in 1893, founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

The Great Lakes account for one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater supply.

Michigan has approximately 11,000 lakes.

Michigan has more than 4,000 miles of snowmobile trails.

Mackinac Bridge: Completed in 1957, the five-mile-long suspension bridge (WORLD'S LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE) connects Michigan's peninsulas across the Straits of Mackinac