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Aug 30, 2024 31 tweets 8 min read Read on X
The USA is full of fascinating surprises. Every turn here reveals something surreal.!

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1. Potash canals on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Image
2. Abandoned party mansion deep in the Maryland forest Image
3. Largest airplane boneyard in the world. Tucson, Arizona.

4. Antelope Canyon, USA Image
5. Bethlehem Steel, the factory that built NYC Image
6. Topography of USA Image
7. Chicago skyline visible from nearly 50 miles away in Indiana Dunes sunset Image
8. U.S. Route 50 in Nevada, famously known as "The Loneliest Road in America" Image
9. On January 19, 1977, for the first time, it snowed in Miami, Florida. Image
10. The Wave, Arizona

11. A photo of the Old Cincinnati Library Image
12. Firefighters in Arizona putting out a fire in Mexico over the border, 2012 Image
13. Twenty Year Difference in Dallas, Texas (2001 to 2021) Image
14. Devil's Tower in Wyoming, USA Image
15. How a homemade levee saved an Arkansas home during a Mississippi flood in May 2011 Image
16. The Katy Freeway, The widest highway in the world, 26 lanes, Houston, Texas, USA Image
17. Most popular girl name by state from 1960-2012

18. A Texas dad sold off his business and built a $51 million amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for everyone with special needs. It has had over a million visitors, with one-third of its staff with special needs Image
19. Never knew these big American cities were so close together. Image
20. The word “soda” takes over. Image
21. The Lincoln Memorial In 1920 Before The Reflecting Pool Was Built. Image
22. San Francisco in 1906

23. The infamous two Korean men defending a grocery store during the L.A Riots April 30, 1992 Image
24. Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graudation rate from 25% to nearly 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships. Image
25. What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955. Image
26. US (contiguous) population density map Image
27. Lan party from 2003 Image
28. Fifth Avenue, New York, 1929

29. Bentonite Hills, Utah Image
30. Unfinished Manhattan Bridge in 1908 and now. Image
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