Five Random Facts For Friday

Here are some random facts for you.

 

1.  West Virginia is the only state where the population is down from 2010.  It’s dropped 0.48%.

 

2.  Even though “Borat” made Kazakhstan look racist, and the country threatened to SUE Sacha Baron Cohen over the movie, tourism went up 1,000% the year after it came out.

 

3.  There are 41 independent cities in the U.S., which means they aren’t part of a county.  Thirty-eight of them are in Virginia.  The other three are Baltimore, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri and Carson City, Nevada.

 

4.  Ian Fleming only wrote three books that weren’t about James Bond, and one of them was “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”.

 

5.  There are 28 fireplaces in the White House.

 

(Wikipedia / BBC / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Whitehouse.gov)