29 Trivia Tidbits About Seemingly ‘Normal’ Cities

You may be living someplace incredibly strange without realizing it
29 Trivia Tidbits About Seemingly ‘Normal’ Cities

We have this theory that there’s something weird about literally every location. So we asked our contributors to tell us the most puzzling facts about famous cities. Turns out we were right. For example, what’s the deal with the venomous un-killable spiders from South America that ended up in Helsinki? How did they get there? We have to imagine at least one intern got canned for that. It’s gotta be in the job description: “No venomous un-killable spiders from South America.”

Anyway, keep reading for some truly wild examples they found for us…

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Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, has a river called EI Guaire that has been recieving the waste from urban sewers for a long time. Recently, many
A major museum in Helsinki is infested with venomous, nearly unkillable spiders from South America. dia They've been there since the 1960s, and nobody
While they shop or sip coffee, Reykjavik parents leave babies in carriages in freezing weather. It's considered a good way for babies to get fresh air
Portland, Oregon has a dormant volcano within its city limits. PEARL DISTRIC MONTAVILLA van SUNNYSIDE Oregon z Portland Mt Tabor Park RICHMOND E1 coun
Salt Lake City has the widest streets of any major U.S. city. At 130 feet, they're twice as wide as Manhattan's. Brigham Young, the Mormon president w
A motorway tunnel in Lucerne, Switzerland is actually one of the world's biggest fallout shelters. The Sonnenberg Bunker was designed so that the moto
Underneath Paris is a maze decorated with millions of human bones. Over 100 miles long, the maze was an ancient mine before being converted into bone-
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Greelius From The Secret City HENN. During WWII, Oak Ridge TN was commissioned to develop and build the first atomic bomb. The vast majority of the ci
If you've been to Chicago's Lincoln Park, you've walked over thousands of forgotten graves. South Lincoln Park was the City Cemetary until officials d
Z Seattle has more households with pets than households with children.
Nearly half of the population in India, or around 524 million people, practices open defecation. Almost 65, 5.000 tons of feces are excreted in the op
Despite the hectic traffic conditions, there have been no Stop signs in Paris since 2013, when the only one in the city was removed. Auerlies I Pichia
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29 Trivia Tidbits About Seemingly ‘Normal’ Cities
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Even though Dharavi, India is one of the largest slums in the world, its annual economic output is estimated to be more than $1 billion. The large num

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In Bali, indonesia, people celebrate the new year with 'Silent Day' That means no lighting fires or lights, no working, no entertainment, no traveling
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A lot of busy picnic spots in London are built over burial sites for plague victims. Beneath the city are hundreds of unmapped plague pits, housing te
In Lhasa, Tibet, people are practicing Sky Burial It's a funeral practice where they lay a human corpse on a mountaintop to decompose or to be eaten
An iannual income of $82.000 qualifies low-income dl u007 as in San Francisco.
Try looking for a cemetery in San Francisco. Actually, don't bother, because you'd be hard-pressed to find one: In 1880, the city was overpopulated wi
Hamburg's party district had a big problem with public urination. Therefore, the city invested in hydrophobic paint that sprinkles the pee back onto t
In Oranienburg, Germany, everyday life is shaped by WWII bomb disposals. SWRTS The strategically important town took the most bombing per square mile
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As summer twilight descends on the Yolo Causeway in Sacramento, California, a rumbling begins, deep within the bowels of the concrete behemoth Suddenl
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