Post a cool fact or facts about your city here.
I live in Louisville, KY we got some cool shit like a big ass bat and old ass boat.
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But what really puts us on the map are mother fuckin horses.
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Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles (2.0 km) at Churchill Downs.
We also have John Schnatter the creator of Papa Johns! No one likes him.
Well back in my old "city" we hade a yearly celebration for the day we got our first and only pedestrian crossing, that got placed just by the cemetary.
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Taipei 101, it's pretty badass, especially during the new year eves
https://www.taipei-101.com.tw/101Firework/images/2016/101_04.jpg
My city has the highest student-non student population in the Netherlands, with about 1 in every 4 people being a current student. There is a top 100 University here and a very good technical university as well as quite a few colleges.
End result means that there is always cool shit going on, music and art festivals, club nights etc. There is also no official enforced closing time for bars and clubs,
I once saw a bloke w/o shirt or trousers riding a bike downhill, bottle of vodka in one hand, shouting "PERKELE!" as he rode down a hill towards the river. Gets launched in the air, falls in the river, re-emerges sans bike or vodka, raises his hands in triumph and repeats his battle cry, then buggers off.
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Glendale CA has swastikas on their streetlights in front of city hall and the police station.
I live in Calgary, there's nothing cool here.
December is effectively "stay home" month because the whole island is littered with tourists
My hometown used to be known as Dickersville
can’t imagine why they changed it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_Beach
oldest public beach in the US and used to have one of the first rollercoasters ever, all of them are gone now and it's mostly condos
My city has a massive trail system that makes biking / walking a more viable alternative to driving
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Minneapolis and St. Paul are also #1 and #2, respectively, in park land per capita, both with 15% of the city dedicated to parks.
https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/wp-content/uploads/files/Spoonbridge.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minnehaha_Falls%2C_Minneapolis.jpg
We (iirc, I don't know for sure) are also a pretty big urbex city as Minneapolis used to be massive in the flour industry, but it dried up here and now we have these absolutely ginormous monolithic mills littering the skyline
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https://www.minnpost.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_detail/united-crushers_main.jpg
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Otherwise, I dont think theres much that differentiates us from the rest of urban US tbh. It also apparently gets cold here I guess.
Newcastle, Australia is one of the most boring places in the world. One of its ‘highlights’ was the Queens Wharf tower, often referred to as the ‘penis tower’
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... which was demolished several months ago.
Stockholm is an old, old, OLD city. It was officially founded over 750 years ago but was settled for centuries before that. The buildings in the inner city area "Gamla Stan" (Litterally "Old Town") have been around for well over 400+ years, a couple even longer. These buildings are all still being used to this day for all kinds of stuff, both housing and businesses. Everything in this area is meticulously preserved, and the slim, cobblestone roads make you feel like you've ended up in a different era.
The Royal Castle has also been around for 250+ years in its current shape. Its predecessor burned down in a massive fire in the year 1697.
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A carpenters nightmare what the fuck
Montgomery, AL, has the Hyundai plant that makes all the Sonata's and Elantra's in the US as well as Maxwell AFB
The pizza.
https://youtu.be/lGKGiThvEj0
Bill Cosby was going to come record an episode of "Kids Say the Darndest Things..." in Cincinnati awhile back, but a bunch of people here told him "don't come here, Cincinnati hates black people," so he didn't come.
Near around where I live, 20-30 minutes about.
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The TESLA gigglefactory, with some ancient industrial plants in the background. Literally old VS new.
It's a kinda funny look at old VS new. Right in the middle of a small area with old, cheaply produced housing that has been polluted for decades is a new age green energy building.
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Pollution flowing into Lake Erie from Buffalo, 1973
Winnipeg
It gets fucking cold here
might not be the kind of cool you're after though
My town of Terre Haute Indiana has some neat things:
We're the birthplace of the modern Coke-Cola bottle
A Towering Tribute
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I also worked at Sony here where we made most of the cassettes, laserdisks, cds, dvds, blurays and games here in the US.
and we have the largest Texas Roadhouse
We got a song:
https://youtu.be/qp_zyuo0W2o
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Since the place I live is so boring, here's two cool things about the town an hour away (and where I went to college)
we got wall
https://www.actapps.se/media/1720/zutphen.jpg
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we got big market
https://www.tripweb.nl/uploads/cache/fb_og_image/uploads/media/5aa2a1a151b3d/zutphen-centrumjpeg.jpg
cute old streets and general old shit
http://www.hetisvastgoed.nl/Pictures//object/object-1107047/origineel/Beukerstraat-48-Zutphen-1241298.jpg
neon cycle path tunnel
https://www.architectuur.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Zutphen-Kostverloren-tunnel-249-Jannes-Linders.jpg
Here in Kristianstad we have the lowest natural point in Sweden it's around 2 meters below the sea level
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Lowest_point_Sweden.JPG
It was originally a fortress that evolved into a city, you can still see some of the original fortifications.
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Melbourne still retains a lot of its old styled architecture which I love. And we also got a lot of popular sport stadiums I guess.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Melbourne_Collins_Street_Architecture.jpg/1200px-Melbourne_Collins_Street_Architecture.jpg
https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/32353/219279/f/1690402-Old-Melbourne-buildings-0.jpg
Nothing too cool aside from that though tbh. Just the California of Australia but boring.
My city has the oldest continuously-operated horse racing track in North America (Open since 1838 and has never closed down since). There's also a free museum at the track with a bunch of horse-racing related stuff.
We've got this weird horse fountain where the designer decided the water should come out of the noses...
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In the winter months when the fountain is shut off, it looks like the horses just did a mountain of coke.
George Carlin apparently attended a (now abandoned) catholic school in town for a brief period of time.
And while's more what I'd call "interesting" rather than "cool", it's where outlaw Claudius Smith was hanged, and it's also home to the property where the bodies of a few of serial killer Nathaniel White's victims were found, though the house burned down a few years ago.
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AND this is a pretty interesting read about a fight that broke out between United States and Australian servicemen during WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane
howdy neighbor :>
Marshmallow Fluff was invented here in Somerville, MA, USA.
awesome to see someone else from the area!
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