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@tradingMaxiSL

Aug 30, 2024 • 31 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X

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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.

2. Abandoned party mansion deep in the Maryland forest

3. Largest airplane boneyard in the world. Tucson, Arizona.

4. Antelope Canyon, USA

5. Bethlehem Steel, the factory that built NYC

6. Topography of USA

7. Chicago skyline visible from nearly 50 miles away in Indiana Dunes sunset

8. U.S. Route 50 in Nevada, famously known as "The Loneliest Road in America"

9. On January 19, 1977, for the first time, it snowed in Miami, Florida.

10. The Wave, Arizona

11. A photo of the Old Cincinnati Library

12. Firefighters in Arizona putting out a fire in Mexico over the border, 2012

13. Twenty Year Difference in Dallas, Texas (2001 to 2021)

14. Devil's Tower in Wyoming, USA

15. How a homemade levee saved an Arkansas home during a Mississippi flood in May 2011

16. The Katy Freeway, The widest highway in the world, 26 lanes, Houston, Texas, USA

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

19. Never knew these big American cities were so close together.

20. The word “soda” takes over.

21. The Lincoln Memorial In 1920 Before The Reflecting Pool Was Built.

22. San Francisco in 1906

23. The infamous two Korean men defending a grocery store during the L.A Riots April 30, 1992

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.

25. What is now the fully developed Las Vegas strip, 1955.

26. US (contiguous) population density map

27. Lan party from 2003

28. Fifth Avenue, New York, 1929

29. Bentonite Hills, Utah

30. Unfinished Manhattan Bridge in 1908 and now.

Thank you for reading all the way through! If you enjoyed the thread, feel free to share the first post and follow me for more content like this. @tradingMaxiSL ♥️

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