Wednesday, February 09, 2022

50 Interesting Facts About The 50 State Capitals



If you went to school in America, you most likely had to learn all the state capitals, but you probably didn’t learn much about them. The capital of Alaska, the city of Juneau, is bigger in area than the entire state of Delaware! That’s just one of 50 weird facts you never knew about the capital cities of each of the United States, presented by John Green in this mental_floss video. I think they really should have named Des Moines “Fort Raccoon” instead.

3 comments:

MarkOfIowa said...

So true about Des Moines- it was founded where the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers joined. The fort ended up being Fort Des Moines, and it grew from there.

Happy Wednesday, Miss C! (From Fort Raccoon-)

Miss Cellania said...

Happy Wednesday, Mark!

Anonymous said...

The city of Des Moines has been pushing that contrived explanation for years.
The truth is more complex:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/des%20moines

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/01/des-moines.html

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/permalink/the_true_meaning_of_des_moines/