The capital of Michigan is Lansing, which is situated in the south of the state. That’s enough fast facts about the Great Lakes State for now, though; we’re here to learn some of the truly interesting facts! Michigan’s name rather appropriately means “large water.” ...
Texas, New York, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, and Illinois. Like other underrepresented groups, Native Americans are succeeding as entrepreneurs, with Native American businesses growing by 17.7% from 2002 to 2007....
The Electronic Beowulf Project was developed by The British Library since spring 1993 in cooperation with the University of Kentucky and Western Michigan University. The first manuscript to digitize was the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and a huge collection of images was created. By 1998, the d...
The line “Born and raised in South Detroit” in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” makes no sense, as there is no South Detroit. Detroit,Michigan, lies on the northern side of the Detroit River, and Ontario, Canada, lies to its south. On one slow news day onApril 18, 1930, a B...
The tallest dog ever was Zeus, a Great Dane from Otsego, Michigan. Zeus was 3’8” (1.1m) at the shoulder, meaning the top of his head would have been well over four feet! The most massive dog ever was Zorba, an absolute unit of an English Mastiff who weighed in at 343lbs (156...
Niagara Daredevil Kirk Jones of Michigan Kirk had been planning the stunt for a few years, but he ended up doing it in one moment of drunken spontaneity. In the middle of a visit to the falls with a friend, he decided that safety and planning were too boring for him, and he jumped ...
The Merit Network of the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad wanted to explore the possibilities of computer networking on a larger scale. According to the official Merit Network site, they connected the University of Michigan with the Wayne State University. Others soon followed. It ...
“FastGlioma is an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic system that has the potential to change the field of neurosurgery by immediately improving comprehensive management of patients with diffuse gliomas,” said senior author Todd Hollon, M.D., a neurosurgeon at University of Michigan Health and...
The Indigenous population is concentrated in 15 states, all of which have 100,000 or more people in this demographic: California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, New York, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, and Illinois. While California has...
History classes may have taught us plenty of important things about all the different presidents we've had over the past two centuries, but there are actually a lot of interesting facts about our presidents that many might not know — including which president was a lifelong bachelor and which...