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I’m going to steer clear of the interesting facts that are horrifically obvious or have been done to death in other answers (“Rhode Island is the smallest state,” for example). I’m going for the wack factor here, people. Buckle up.Alabama - full of rocket scientistsHuntsville, Alabama is known as “the rocket capital of the world.” The Marshall Space Flight Center, activated on July 1, 1960, was responsible for the creation of the Jupiter C rocket (which propelled the first U.S. satellite into orbit) and also built the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 spacecraft). Yes, that’s right: Alabama, at one point, was the home of the world’s highest concentration of rocket scientists. And here you thought Alabama was full of nothing but racist hicks, didn’t you?Alaska - a bit warmer than you thoughtThink it doesn’t get that hot in Alaska? A record high of 100 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded at Fort Yukon in 1915. (Just in case you were curious, the record low was -80 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1971 at Prospect Creek Camp.)Arizona - where the fishing’s fineDespite being one of the most notoriously arid and desert-coated states in the country, Arizona has two native species of trout—one of which, the Apache trout, is found only in Arizona. Unsurprisingly, it’s the official state fish.Arkansas - diamonds in the roughArkansas is a girl’s best friend. The largest and most valuable diamonds ever found in the U.S. were discovered in the state, including the 8.52-carat Esperanza gem discovered in 2015 (pictured above; estimated value $1 million). Arkansas is jam-packed with gems, minerals, ores, and semi-precious stones. The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County allows visitors to search for precious and semi-precious stones, including diamonds, quartz, amethyst, agate, jasper, and garnet.California - an agricultural giantBetter known for the Hollywood film industry and Silicon Valley, California’s real economic powerhouse is its agriculture. More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state, so raise a glass to the Golden State next Thanksgiving. California also produces 300,000 tons of grapes (and 17 million gallons of wine) a year, plus 20% of the nation’s milk and simply staggering amounts of fruit, vegetables, beef, and chicken. Almost all of America’s almonds, figs, apricots, kiwi fruit, olives, dates, nectarines, prunes, pistachios, and walnuts are grown in California—and almost 100% of America’s commercially grown artichokes as well. True story: in 1948, a pretty 22-year-old woman named Norma Jean Baker was crowned California’s first “Artichoke Queen” in Castroville, a few miles north of Monterey (a hotbed of artichoke cultivation). She went on to become actress and bombshell Marilyn Monroe.Colorado - pretty far up thereThey don’t call it “mile-high” for nothing. Not only is Colorado’s largest city, Denver, a mile above sea level, but Colorado also has the highest mean altitude of any state in the country. The highest paved road in North America (14,258 feet at its highest point), the highest auto tunnel in the world (11,000 feet), and the highest incorporated city in the United States (Leadville) are all located in Colorado. Seventy-five percent of all United States soil higher than 10,000 feet is in Colorado. And the views in Colorado, unsurprisingly, are breathtaking. The poet Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write “America the Beautiful” in 1893, after she and some of her coworkers climbed to the 14,000-foot summit of Pike’s Peak (pictured above).Connecticut - birthplace of the hamburgerBeing one of America’s oldest states, Connecticut is a land of firsts. After copper was discovered in Simsbury in 1705, America’s first copper coins were minted in Connecticut in 1737. America’s oldest public library—the Scoville Memorial Library—started up in Salisbury in 1771, after the owner of a local blast furnace solicited contributions from the community and bought 200 books in London to start the collection. America’s first phone book was published in New Haven in 1878 (it only had 50 names in it). The idea for the Polaroid camera was born at a boy’s camp in Connecticut in 1922, with the first camera being sold in 1934. The world’s first practical helicopter, the VS-300, took flight in Stratford in 1939. But those probably aren’t the best and most beloved of Connecticut’s “firsts”—America’s first hamburger was served in New Haven in 1900, at a spot called “Louis’s Lunch.” According to local legend, a customer asked owner Louis Lassen if the “ground steak trimmings” they’d just ordered could be served to go. Lassen slid the ground beef patty between a pair of bread slices, and presto! Burger-ception.Delaware - workin’ on the night shiftReggae legend Bob Marley resided in Delaware from 1965 to 1977, working at the Chrysler plant in Newark and for the Dupont Company, saving up money to move back to Jamaica and start a record company. His song “Night Shift” (one of my favorites by Marley, actually) is rumored to be based on his time there. How apropos that Marley, spokesman for the downtrodden and oppressed, should take up residence in Delaware, a hub of the Underground Railroad. Pennsylvania-born Quaker Thomas Garrett, a close friend and benefactor of Harriet Tubman, was a “stationmaster” for the Underground Railroad in Delaware in the years leading up to the American Civil War. He is thought to have helped over 2,000 escaped slaves reach safety; Garrett’s personal (and very modest) estimate was 2,700. Now that’s workin’ on the night shift.Florida - crocs and gators, gators and crocsEven by American standards, Florida is a weird place. For starters, it’s the only place in the world where both crocodiles and alligators exist side by side (in the Everglades). Another fun Florida fact: Saint Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the continental U.S., having been founded by the Spanish in 1565. (I couldn’t decide which fact was more interesting, so I included them both.)Georgia - Blackbeard’s hideout, maybeNotorious buccaneer Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, terrorized the Caribbean and the southeast coast of British North America in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Legends say he may have had a hideout on Blackbeard Island just off the coast of Georgia, and may even have buried some of his treasure there. Either way, the United States Congress set aside 3,000 acres as the “Blackbeard Island Wilderness Area” in 1975.Hawaii - what isn’t interesting about it?There as many interesting facts about Hawaii as there are grains of sand on its beaches. Let me throw a few at ya:Hawaii is the only U.S. state which grows coffee.There are only 13 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet—five vowels and eight consonants.Waialeale Mountain on the island of Kauai is considered the wettest place on earth, with an average rainfall of 488 inches.The only royal palace in the United States, Iolani Palace, is located on Oahu.The biggest contiguous ranch in the United States is located on the Big Island of Hawai’i—the Parker Ranch, at roughly 480,000 acres.The Big Island is home to the world’s most active volcano—Kilauea.The two tallest mountains in the Pacific (Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa) are also located on the Big Island.Idaho - deep canyons, tall waterfallsThought the deepest canyon in the United States was that big one in Arizona? Nope. Hells Canyon in western Idaho is the deepest river gorge in the country at 7,993 feet—about 1,900 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon. Oh, and Shoshone Falls, also on the Snake River (in Twin Falls), is 212 feet high—45 feet higher than Niagara.Illinois - one of the flattest flats that ever flattened a flatIllinois is the second-flattest of the lower 48 states. (The only flatter state is Florida, with all those low-lying coastal plains.) It lies, on average, 600 feet above sea level, except down near the Mississippi River, where it reaches as low as 279 feet above sea level. The highest point in the whole state, Charles Mound, is a mere 1,235 feet above sea level. That’s less than a thousand feet of elevation change in an area of almost 58,000 square miles. Quite a difference from Colorado, eh?Indiana - the popcorn capital of the worldHawaii grows coffee. Georgia grows the “three P’s”—peaches, peanuts, and pecans. California grows…almost everything. Indiana, however, grows corn. Almost half of the state’s farmland is devoted to growing corn. Not surprising, given that Indiana is the home state of Orville Redenbacher, and produces 20% of the United States’ popcorn. In 2014, Indiana farmers planted 91,000 acres of corn just for popcorn.Iowa - rivers, lakes, and mammoth bonesDespite lying almost smack-dab in the middle of the United States, Iowa is the only state whose eastern and western borders are 100% water. It is bounded to the west by the Missouri River and to the east by the Mississippi. Much like Illinois, Iowa is quite flat—mashed into a pancake by the glaciers that marched across North America during the last Ice Age. The Iowa Great Lakes in Dickinson County were scooped out by these glaciers. Not surprisingly, Iowa is saturated with woolly mammoth bones—the big hairy critters once dominated the region.Kansas - they got a lotta breadIn addition to being the state that’s less flat than Iowa only because it’s got a hill or two, Kansas is America’s breadbasket. Almost literally. In 1990, Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 33 billion loaves of bread—enough to give every single human being on Earth six loaves apiece. The Kansan wheat farmers broke their record in 1997, producing enough wheat to make 35.9 billion loaves of bread. Dang, dude. Pass the butter and jam…Kentucky - not just a part of Virginia anymoreBluegrass. The Kentucky Derby. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Mammoth Cave. Fort Knox. The song “Happy Birthday.” Kentucky’s famous for a lot of things, but not many folks know that Kentucky wasn’t even its own state in the beginning. It was originally a county of Virginia. Kentuckians got fed up with having to travel such a long distance to the capital of Richmond, and successfully petitioned to break away and become the 15th state in 1792.Louisiana - where you won’t make the parish lineMaybe this isn’t the most interesting fact about the Bayou State (supposedly it’s where the turducken was invented, popularized by the chef Paul Prudhomme in his New Orleans restaurant K-Paul in the late 1980s). But I’ll throw it out there anyway. Louisiana is the only state in the Union (aside from Alaska) that doesn’t have counties. (Even Hawaii has counties, for Pete’s sake. Alaska has boroughs and census-designated areas.) Louisiana has “parishes” instead.Maine - secluded but beautifulMaine is kind of a lonely place. It’s the only state in the lower 48 that borders just one other state and the only state in the country with a one-syllable name. Mainers speak a completely different language than the rest of the United States. But despite these setbacks, Maine has a lot to offer. Ninety percent of the nation’s toothpick supply is produced in Maine, and they also supply 40% of the nation’s lobster. Jaw-droppingly beautiful Acadia National Park (pictured above, in a photo that won a U.S. Department of the Interior photo contest in 2018) consistently ranks in the top ten most-visited national parks in the country. Oh, and Maine is also home to a rather obscure horror writer named Stephen King.Maryland - home of the U.S. Naval AcademyColorado has the U.S. Air Force Academy, and New York’s got West Point, but Maryland has the U.S. Naval Academy, founded October 10, 1845. (Notable graduates include state governors, ambassadors, cabinet members, Congressmen, Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, and even a U.S. president.) The location of the academy isn’t surprising. Sixteen of Maryland’s 23 counties touch the tidal basin, and Maryland, despite being less than 12,500 miles square, has 4,431 miles of shoreline. Annapolis has been called the sailing capital of the world.Massachusetts - birthplace of basketballAnother New England state with a rich history of “firsts,” Massachusetts can boast of the very first subway system in the United States; the invention of the sport of volleyball (originally called “mintonette”); the namesake of the Fig Newton (Newton, Massachusetts); America’s first planned industrial city (Lowell); America’s first public park (Boston Common, 1634); and the very first game of basketball, played in Springfield in 1891. That may have something to do with why the Basketball Hall of Fame is located in the state.Michigan - land of magicMichigan doesn’t just do cars and rock and roll—the state leads the U.S. in the production of peat, gypsum, and iron ore, and was once home to the world’s largest cement plant, the world’s biggest limestone quarry, and the world’s biggest herd of Holstein cows. But Michigan is known for mass-producing something else, too, something a bit more…whimsical. The city of Colon is the self-proclaimed “Magic Capital of the World.” Every summer the city hosts a four-day magician’s convention, to which amateur and professional magicians flock from across the country. There’s a magic museum, a Magician’s Walk of Fame, and of course, a Magic Capital Cemetery—dozens of famous magicians are buried there. (Or are they?)Minnesota - land o’ lakesJolly Green Giant canned vegetables. Scotch tape. Wheaties. The Bundt pan. Bisquick. Water skiing. The pop-up toaster. Armored cars (and Tonka trucks). The stapler. The Mayo Clinic. Paul Bunyan. The Mall of America—the largest shopping center in America, the size of 78 football fields (9.5 million square feet), with 520 stores, 60 restaurants, and an indoor theme park. Minnesota is famous for a lot of stuff, but it’s most famous for its lakes. Known as “the Land of 10,000 Lakes,” Minnesota actually has 11,842 lakes over ten acres in area. Again—blame those damn glaciers.Mississippi - performing surgical wondersThe first lung transplant and the first heart transplant were both performed in Mississippi, in 1963 and 1964 respectively.Missouri - birthplace of the world's tallest-ever manAside from inventing iced tea and ice cream cones, and falling victim to the deadliest tornado in U.S. history (the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, which claimed 695 lives and destroyed 15,000 homes), Missouri is also the birthplace of the tallest man in modern medical history, Robert Pershing Wadlow (8 feet 11.1 inches tall). EDIT: On another Quoran's suggestion, I've amended my answer to say that Wadlow was born in Missouri. He lived most of his life in Illinois.Montana - where the deer, elk, and antelope outnumber the humansNo two ways about it: this state is just plain wild. I’m gonna pull a Hawaii here and throw some more facts at ya:Largest migratory herd of elk in the country.Largest breeding population of trumpeter swans in the lower 48.Most likely more golden eagles than any other state.Largest nesting population of common loons in the western U.S.A moose population of 8,000—not bad, considering moose were thought to be extinct south of the Canadian border in 1900.Largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48.One average square mile of Montana contains 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer.The Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area may contain as many as 300,000 snow geese and 10,000 tundra swans during a typical migration season.Forty-six of Montana’s fifty-six counties are “frontier counties,” with an average population density of less than six people per square mile.Nebraska - drinkin’ the Kool-AidConnecticut’s got hamburgers, New York has French fries, Missouri has ice cream cones, and Florida has Gatorade…but Nebraska is the birthplace of Kool-Aid. Back in the 1920s, Edwin Perkins of Hastings invented a sweet punch he called “Fruit Smack.” But he needed a way to cut production costs. In 1927, he hit upon the idea of selling it as a powder (in his mother’s kitchen, no less) and the rest is history.Nevada - the last bastion of the world’s oldest professionLet’s skip the obvious stuff—casinos, the mob, nuclear testing, Hoover Dam. Let’s get sexy. Nevada is the only state in the Union where some forms of prostitution are still legal. Prostitution is legal in every county in Nevada except Clark County, wherein lies Las Vegas. (Sorry, tourists.) Even so, it is illegal for “freelance” prostitutes to ply their trade—prostitution is illegal except for that practiced in the state’s 21 licensed brothels, such as the famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House.New Hampshire - pretty dang windy, as it turns outThought Chicago was the Windy City? Think again. The winds and weather around Mount Washington, New Hampshire are notoriously wacky and unpredictable. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory recorded a wind speed of 231 miles per hour—three times faster than a Category 1 hurricane. (Two other quick New Hampshire facts—the state declared its independence from Britain six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed—way to go, guys. The state’s motto, unsurprisingly, is “Live Free or Die.”)New Jersey - a seething mass of humanityNew Jersey is pretty much the polar opposite of Montana. Every single one of the state’s 21 counties contains, in whole or in part, a metropolitan area. Ninety percent of the state’s population lives in one of those metropolitan areas. The state has the highest population density of any U.S. state—over a thousand people per square mile, which is 13 times the national average. New Jersey—thanks to its proximity to New York, probably—also has the densest and most tangled network of railroads and highways in the country. And yes, Jersey Shore fans—NJ has no fewer than 50 seaside resort towns and cities, which get horrifically busy during the season.New Mexico - high and dryDenver may be the “Mile-High City” (a mile, for non-Americans reading this answer, is 5,280 feet, and Denver’s elevation ranges between 5,130 and 5,690 feet). But Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, sits at a staggering 7,000 feet. The state is not only high, but also dry—I read somewhere that New Mexico is so arid that 75% of its roads have been left unpaved. They never wash out.New York - always on the verge of a catastrophic subway floodThe trouble with really old cities it’s that it’s pretty dang difficult to modernize them. In New York City’s case, the subway system had to be built below the sewers and storm drains. Over 750 pumps prevent 1.3 million gallons of water from flooding the New York subway system every. Single. Day. I remember reading Alan Weisman’s amazing book The World Without Us, in which he said that the first thing that would happen if humanity suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth is that the New York City subways would flood, and the streets would collapse.North Carolina - flying, jazz, golf, and missing colonistsWhat do aviation, Andrew Jackson, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, and Thelonious Monk all have in common? They were all born in North Carolina. Oh yeah, and it’s also where Babe Ruth hit his first home run, where Arnold Palmer honed his swing (at Wake Forest University), and where the first English colony in North America was established (at Roanoke Island). Yeah, that colony. The one that mysteriously vanished. Oh yeah, and the state’s motto is “Esse quam videri” (“To be, rather than to seem”). How cool is that?North Dakota - protecting “mom and pop shops”Aside from being home to the geographical center of North America (located in Rugby), North Dakota has also become a symbol of the fight against Big Pharma. By North Dakota law, pharmacies must be owned by local pharmacists. You can scour North Dakota from one end to the other and you’d be hard-pressed to find a Rite-Aid or a Walgreens. The law is intended to protect small business owners from being squeezed out by big chains.Ohio - infrastructure galoreYou might say Ohio had the best interest of its citizens at heart. The city of Cincinnati inaugurated America’s first professional fire department on April 1, 1853. Twelve years later, that same city started up the nation’s first ambulance service. A Dayton shopkeeper invented the cash register in 1879 to keep his customers’ sticky fingers off his profits. The city of Akron was the first to use police cars (or rather, police carriages) in 1899. The city of Cleveland installed the nation’s first traffic light in 1914. Ohio also has a long and loving relationship with rock-’n’-roll and aviation—the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland (and the official state song is “Hang On Sloopy”). Ohio is the birthplace of the Wright Brothers and also Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.Oklahoma - birthplace of the electric guitarWhen you think of the phrase “coolest state in America,” Oklahoma probably doesn’t spring to mind. But did you know that that’s where the electric guitar was invented? By a fellow called Bob Dunn in 1934? Didn’t think so. I don’t think even he knew what he was kicking off. Fun fact: the invention of the electric guitar predates the invention of the parking meter (also invented and implemented in Oklahoma) by a year.Oregon - home of the world’s largest (and most terrifying) organismI could say a lot of things about Oregon—the beautiful coastline, the dormant volcanoes, that really deep lake, the wines, the full-service gas stations—but what I really ought to say is that this state is home to the largest organism on earth. It’s a fungus 2.4 miles wide. It’s called a “honey fungus”—an innocuous and dangerously misleading name, in my opinion—and it’s spread itself out over Oregon’s Blue Mountains. I’m sorry, I don’t trust any living thing more than a mile wide. Kill it with fire.Pennsylvania - home of “The Raven” (yes, that raven)Yet another of those old northeastern states rich in history and “firsts,” Pennsylvania is the home of Hershey’s chocolate; the first daily newspaper (1784); the first zoo (1859); the first baseball stadium (1909); the first automobile service station (1913); and the first computer (1946). But Pennsylvania’s claim to fame may be even more profound than that. If you go to the rare book department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, you’ll see a taxidermied raven. It was once the pet of Charles Dickens. But the stuffed bird most famously inspired a certain melancholy Baltimore poet named Edgar Allan Poe to write a poem called “The Raven.” EDIT: This answer previously said that Pennsylvania was part of New England. I've corrected that error on the suggestion of another Quoran.Rhode Island - founded by a true AmericanYes, Rhode Island is the smallest state—let’s get that out of the way. But it’s so much more than that. The colony of Rhode Island was founded by a man who just might have been the most moral American who ever lived. His name was Roger Williams. He was a Puritan minister, author, and theologian who pretty much laid the foundation for the Bill of Rights. Williams was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, firmly supported the separation of church and state, and wanted the colonies to deal fairly with the Native Americans. He was also one of the first abolitionists, way before it was cool. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both acknowledged Williams as a major influence on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. After being excommunicated by the Puritan leadership for espousing “new and radical ideas,” Williams founded the Providence Plantations in 1636, offering what he called “liberty of conscience.” If that’s not American, I don’t know what is.South Carolina - shakin’ and quakin’California by no means has a monopoly on earthquakes. On August 31, 1886, an earthquake believed to have registered 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked the city of Charleston, killing over a hundred people, leveling the city, and causing $5.5 million in damages—about $136 million in today’s currency.South Dakota - dyin’ place of a Western legendAmong its many claims to fame—the location of Mount Rushmore, birthplace of Tom Brokaw, homeland of the Sioux nation—South Dakota is also famous for being the place where the legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok met his end. ’Twas in Deadwood, in 1876, when jealous gambler Jack McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head at point-blank range while Hickok was playing poker. In Hickok’s hand were aces and eights—known forever after as “the dead man’s hand.” Though Hickok’s star had faded over the years, his folk hero status was such that Jack McCall’s trial was swift and merciless. In 1877, he was convicted of murder, hanged, and buried in an unmarked grave in Yankton.Tennessee - home of the braveTennessee’s history is a martial one. Tennessee earned its nickname (“the Volunteer State”) due to the valor exhibited by Tennessean volunteers who fought under Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans at the close of the War of 1812. Davy Crockett, the famous American frontiersman, soldier, folk hero, and politician, was born in Tennessee and went on to die a glorious death at the Alamo in 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tennesee sent more soldiers to fight in the American Civil War than any other state—120,000 to the Confederacy and 31,000 to the Union. Alvin C. York, born in Pall Mall, became one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I. More than 3,600 Tennessee National Guardsmen participated in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. Aside from its indisputable martial prowess, Tennessee is also famous for whiskey (Jack Daniels, anyone?) and music—it’s the birthplace of country music (and Dolly Parton), the location of Elvis Presley’s home of Graceland, and the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running live radio program in the world. It’s been going nonstop since 1925.Texas - a pretty damn big placeI’m afraid I’m going to have to go with the most obvious interesting fact about Texas, guys. Texas is big. Like, mega-big. The state’s King Ranch is larger than the state of Rhode Island. The city of El Paso is closer to Needles, California (two states away) than it is to Dallas. The state is home to the country’s largest population of whitetail deer and is estimated to be home to 16 million head of cattle. Texas makes up 7.4% of the United States’ total area all by itself. Texas’s largest county (Brewster) is 6,208 square miles—larger than the state of Connecticut (and the nation of Montenegro). Texas itself is 268,597 square miles, which would make it the 40th largest country if it was a country by itself—slightly larger than Burma, and slightly smaller than Morocco.Utah - addicted to gelatinThe state seems to be a little bit obsessed with Jell-O. Salt Lake City has the highest per-capita consumption of the gelatinous stuff in the entire world.Vermont - milk and maple syrupVermont seems to be a bit…removed from the rest of American culture. A mere 22% of Vermonters attend church regularly. The state capital, Montpelier, doesn’t have a McDonalds. Like, anywhere. And until 1996, there were no Walmarts in the state either. (Vermont, much like North Dakota, tends to favor local businesses over nationwide chains.) Vermont has the highest proportion of dairy cows to people—its 1,000 dairy farms and 135,000 cows produce 2.3 billion pounds of milk per annum. Vermont also produces more maple syrup than any other state. (And they’re pretty snobby about it, too.)Virginia - steeped in historyNo discussion of American history is complete without Virginia. It was the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America (Jamestown—sorry you disappeared there, Roanoke). It was the location of the first Thanksgiving. The birthplace of eight U.S. presidents (and six president’s wives). The site of the British surrender during the Revolutionary War (Yorktown). The location of numerous battles of the American Civil War, and the location of the Confederate capital (Richmond). The home base of the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic fleet (Norfolk). Rumor has it that 50% of the people in the United States live within a 500-mile radius of Richmond, Virginia…in which case the Old Dominion would be the “center” of the United States, even more so than Rugby, North Dakota.Washington - home of the world’s biggest buildingWhile Washington State is famous for a number of things—being the only state named after a U.S. president, growing fantastic apples, having more glaciers than the other lower 48 states combined, being the birthplace of both Jimi Hendrix and Bing Crosby—Washington is probably best known for being the headquarters of some of America’s wealthiest and most well-known corporations, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Boeing. It’s also home to the largest building in the world—the Boeing assembly plant in Everett, which is a staggering 4,280,000 square feet in area and 472 million cubic feet in volume.West Virginia - birthplace of the ballsiest test pilot in historyYet another piece of the state of Virginia that broke away, West Virginia split away from its mother state in 1861, after Virginia voted to secede from the Union. Only 17 of the 49 delegates from the northwestern corner of the state were in favor of secession, so a convention was held in Wheeling and the notion of becoming an independent state was floated. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation formally admitting West Virginia to the Union, making WV the only state to be admitted to the Union via presidential proclamation. The state is probably most famous for two things: producing 15% of America’s coal and producing Chuck Yeager, the heroic WWII triple ace and test pilot who broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 in 1947.Wisconsin - milk, cheese, cranberries, and…ginseng?Wisconsin sees Vermont’s 1,000 dairy farms and raises ’em 9,920. Wisconsin’s cows produce 25.4% of the country’s cheese and 13.5% of its milk. Wisconsin’s abundance of arable land allows it to grow 60% of the nation’s cranberries and 97% of its ginseng. Wisconsin also grows plenty of green peas, snap peas, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, cherries, apples, and corn. The city of Milwaukee was once home to four of the world’s biggest producers of beer: Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst, and Miller. Only Miller remains, but Wisconsin’s craft brew scene is thriving. Wisconsin is also the birthplace of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, entertainer Chris Farley, actor and producer Orson Welles, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, painter Georgia O’Keeffe, circus impresarios Charles and John Ringling, and pianist Liberace.WyomingUniversal suffrage! Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote, in 1869–51 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified.And there you have it, Quora. Fifty exhaustively researched (heh) facts about the American states. Hope you enjoyed it. My information may be out of date, so please suggest any corrections in the comments section. And thanks for reading.

“For complex surgical procedures, you’re generally better off at teaching hospitals, which usually stay at the forefront of health research. Medical students and residents ask questions, providing more eyes and ears to pay attention and prevent errors. Teaching hospitals have lower complication rates and better outcomes.” —Evan Levine, MD, a cardiologist and the author of What Your Doctor Can’t (or Won’t) Tell You.“Those freestanding ERs popping up all over? They typically don’t have anywhere near the resources of hospital ERs, yet they cost just as much. Go there for small bumps and bruises. For something serious (chest pain, a badly broken bone), get to a trauma center where specialists and surgeons work.” —James Pinckney, MD, an ER doctor, founder of Diamond Physicians in Dallas, Texas. Check out these other 50 secrets an ER staff won’t tell you.Epidural steroid injections for back pain has risky potential complications like neurological problems or paralysis. “Generally, epidural steroid injection isn’t very useful for treatment of chronic back or neck pain,” says Steven Severyn, MD, an anesthesiologist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.No unnecessary scans. Studies have shown that radiation from CT scans could be responsible for as many as two percent of all cancers in the U.S. “CT scans are much quicker and tend to be less costly than an MRI, but does have the added radiation that MRI’s lack,” says Todd Sontag, DO, a family medicine physician with Orlando Health.Practically all surgeons have an inherent financial conflict of interest. That’s because they are paid approximately ten times more money to perform surgery than to manage your problem conservatively.” —James Rickert, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Bedford, Indiana.No-certified specialty. If an airline told you that their pilot is the best but he’s not FAA-certified, would you get on the plane? "For the same reason, always check if your surgeon is board-certified in his specialty. Many are not.” Tomas A. Salerno, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of MedicineSome surgeons won’t mention procedures they don’t know how to do. "I’ll see patients who were told they needed an open hysterectomy, even though it could be handled laparoscopically. That’s one reason it’s good to get a second opinion.” —Arnold Advincula, MDYears ago, a patient sent his slides to three different pathologists and got three different answers. "I got very upset on hearing that. Now I never rely on just one pathology exam. If your doctor finds something, ask him to send your slides to a nationally recognized reference lab—not just one or two slides but the whole lot—and get a second interpretation.” —Bert Vorstman, MD, a prostate cancer specialist in Coral Springs, FloridaIn medicine, you can get a DUI, go to jail for a couple of hours, and walk out at 7 a.m. the next morning and do a surgery. "You can be accused of sexual misconduct and drug and alcohol abuse in one state and pop over to the next one and get a license. Some state medical boards don’t even thoroughly research your background; they argue that the less-than-$10 fee to access national data is too expensive.” —Marty Makary, MD.Surgeons are control freaks. "When things don’t go our way in the operating room, we can have outbursts. Some of us curse, some throw instruments, others have tantrums.” —Paul Ruggieri, MD, author of Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated ... Life Behind the O.R. DoorsMistakes are probably more common than you would think. "But most of them don’t actually hurt people. I work with residents, and I don’t let them do anything that I can’t fix if they screw it up. If there’s an error that I fix that I’m sure won’t affect the patient at all, I’m not going to say anything about it. That would accomplish nothing except to stress out the patient.” —An orthopedic surgeonSome problems just don’t fix well with surgery, like many cases of back pain. "My advice? Grin and bear it. Some surgeons vehemently disagree. They say, ‘Oh, you have a degenerative disk, and that must be the culprit. Let’s fix it.’ But many people have a degenerative disk with no pain. There isn’t a lot of evidence that we’re helping very many people.” —Kevin B. Jones, MDAlways ask about nonsurgical options and whether there’s anything wrong with waiting a little while. "Surgeons are busy, and they like to operate. A professor from my residency would say, ‘There is nothing more dangerous than a surgeon with an open operating room and a mortgage to pay.’” —Kevin B. Jones, MDTalk to your doctor about donating your blood or asking your family members to donate blood before an elective surgery. "Banked blood is a foreign substance, like an organ, and your body can potentially react adversely. If you can use your own blood or blood from your family, there’s less chance of those reactions." —Kathy Magliato, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CaliforniaResidents have to learn how to operate, and it’s required that an attending physician be ‘present'. But ‘present’ doesn’t mean he has to be in the operating room scrubbed in. At an academic institution, ask whether your surgeon will be actively participating in the surgery or just checking in every hour." —Ezriel “Ed” Kornel, MDDuring my six weeks as a surgical intern in the ER, I inadvertently stuck myself twice with contaminated needles...... briefly nodded off in the middle of suturing a leg laceration, accidentally punctured a guy’s femoral artery while trying to draw some blood, and broke up a fight between the family members of a guy who’d come in with a stab wound to the abdomen. I was slugged in the head by a delirious patient in an alcoholic rage, spat upon, coughed on, vomited on, farted on, bled on, and mistaken for an orderly.” —Paul Ruggieri, MDYour doctor should not push you to make a speedy decision about prostate cancer surgery. "Most prostate cancers are extremely slow-growing, and there is so much misleading information out there, so you should take your time.” —Bert Vorstman, MDIf you have pain in your calf after surgery, or if it swells and looks red, call your doctor right away. "Those are the main symptoms of a blood clot, which is a risk of just about every surgery.” —James Rickert, MDThis is what really keeps us up at night. "It’s not making a mistake in the operating room; it’s the noncompliant patients. When patients don’t do what we tell them, bad things can happen.” —Kurian Thott, MD, an ob-gyn in Stafford, VirginiaDon’t ask too many questions. If you ask too many questions, you can be branded as a pain in the neck. "When one extremely hostile relative bombarded me every time I walked in, I developed a tendency not to go in the room. If you have three pages full of questions, show them to the nurse. Say ‘How many of these should I wait to ask the doctor about? How many can you help me with?’” —General surgeon who blogs under the name Skeptical ScalpelAbout 25 percent of operations are unnecessary, but administrators e-mail doctors telling them to do more. "This is not an insurance company putting pressure on doctors; this is not a government regulation. This is private hospitals pushing doctors to generate more money by doing more procedures. It goes on at America’s top hospitals. The Cleveland Clinic has said this system of paying doctors is so ethically immoral that it started paying its doctors a flat salary no matter how many operations they do.” —Marty Makary, MD.Fatigue and impatience have undoubtedly contributed to some mistakes I’ve made in the operating room. "But unless you ask, your surgeon is not going to tell you that he was up all night on call before your procedure and that he may not be in tip-top form.” —Paul Ruggieri, MDI always ask at national conferences of doctors, ‘How many of you know of another doctor who should not be practicing medicine because he is too dangerous?’ "Every hand goes up.” —Marty Makary, MDVery often, plastic surgery patients don’t admit to a previous surgery, and I don’t find out until I’m in there. "I’ll go in on an eyelid or a nose, and it’s just a mess. If you don’t tell us you had lipo, there will be scar tissue, and the fat won’t come out normally. So please be 100 percent honest. There’s no need to be embarrassed. We’ve heard it all, and we don’t judge.” —Andrew Ordon, MD, cohost of the television show The Doctors and a board-certified plastic surgeon.The biggest mistake during recovery is not giving yourself enough of a break. "Give yourself time to heal. If you don’t, you can cause complications and prolong your recovery."—Andrew Ordon, MDIf your doctor wants to give you a stent, always ask: Is this better than medicine? "If you’re not having a heart attack or an unstable angina, you will do equally well with a stent or medicine, studies show. Having something permanently implanted in your body is not a risk-free proposition. There is evidence that thousands of people have had stents they likely did not need." —Marc Gillinov, MD.If I had any kind of serious medical condition, I’d go to a teaching hospital. "You’ll get doctors involved with the latest in medicine. Even for simple cases, if there’s a complication that requires an assist device or a heart transplant, some hospitals may not be able to do it. At a university hospital, you also have the advantage of having a resident or physician bedside 24-7, with a surgeon on call always available." —Tomas A. Salerno, MDBefore any operation, always ask what’s broken and how fixing it will help. "Just because you have a blockage in an artery doesn’t mean you need it fixed, especially if you don’t have symptoms.” —Marc Gillinov, MDSpecialists quietly pad your bill. “Less-well-trained physicians will call in an abundance of consults to help them take care of the patient. If those specialists check on you every day, your bill is being padded and padded. Ask whether those daily visits are necessary.” —Evan Levine, MD.Ask how to recover faster. “Since each day in the hospital costs $4,293 on average, one of the best ways to cut costs is to get out sooner. Find out what criteria you need to meet to be discharged, and then get motivated, whether it’s moving from the bed to a chair or walking two laps around the hospital floor.” —James Pinckney, MD.Second-guess tests. “Fifteen to 30 percent of everything we do—tests, medications, and procedures—is unnecessary, our research has shown. It’s partly because of patient demand; it’s partly to prevent malpractice. When your doctor orders a test, ask why, what he expects to learn, and how your care will change if you don’t have it.” —Marty Makary, MD.“Your surgeon may be doing someone else’s surgery at the same time as yours. We’re talking about complex, long, highly skilled operations that are scheduled completely concurrently, so your surgeon is not present for half of yours or more. Many of us have been concerned about this for decades. Ask about it beforehand.” —Marty Makary, MD.“Hospital toiletries are awful. The lotion is watery. The bars of soap are so harsh that they dry out your skin. There is no conditioner. The toilet paper is not the softest. Come with your own.” —Michele Curtis, MD.Being transferred? Speak up. “If you go to a smaller hospital and it has to transfer you to a different medical center, demand that it ship you to the closest one that can handle your care. What’s happening is that community medical centers are sending patients instead to the big hospital that they’re affiliated with, even if it’s farther away. It happens even when a patient is bleeding to death or having a heart attack that needs emergency care.” —Evan Levine, MD.“Don’t assume the food is what you should be eating. There’s no communication between dietary and pharmacy, and that can be a problem when you’re on certain meds. I’ve had patients on drugs for hypertension or heart failure (which raises potassium levels), and the hospital is delivering (potassium-rich) bananas and orange juice. Then their potassium goes sky high, and I have to stop the meds. Ask your doctor whether there are foods you should avoid.” —Evan Levine, MD.On weekends and holidays, hospitals typically have lighter staffing and less experienced doctors and nurses. Some lab tests and other diagnostic services may be unavailable. If you’re having a major elective surgery, try to schedule it for early in the week so you won’t be in the hospital over the weekend. —Roy Benaroch, MD, a pediatrician and the author of A Guide to Getting the Best Healthcare for Your Child.“Many hospitals say no drinking or eating after midnight the day before your surgery because it’s more convenient for them. But that means patients may show up uncomfortable, dehydrated, and starving, especially for afternoon surgery. The latest American Society of Anesthesiologists guidelines are more nuanced: no fried or fatty foods for eight hours before your surgery and no food at all for six hours. Clear liquids, including water, fruit juices without pulp, soda, Gatorade, and black coffee, may be consumed up to two hours beforehand.” —Cynthia Wong, MD, an anesthesiologist at University of Iowa Healthcare“Get copies of your labs, tests, and scans before you leave the hospital, along with your discharge summary and operative report if you had surgery. It can be shockingly difficult for me to get copies of those things. Even though I have a computer and the hospital has a computer, our computers don’t talk to each other.” —Roy Benaroch, MD.“One time, I ran into a patient I had performed a simple appendectomy on. He thanked me for saving his life, then told me it almost ruined him because he couldn’t pay the bill. Four hours in the hospital, and they charged him $12,000, and that didn’t even include my fee. I showed his bill to some other doctors. We took out an ad in the newspaper demanding change.” —Hans Rechsteiner, MD, a general surgeon in northern Wisconsin.We're Impatient. Your doctor generally knows more than a website. I have patients with whom I spend enormous amounts of time, explaining things and coming up with a treatment strategy. Then I get e-mails a few days later, saying they were looking at this website that says something completely different and wacky, and they want to do that. To which I want to say (but I don't), "So why don't you get the website to take over your care?"--James Dillard, MDNinety-four percent of doctors take gifts from drug companies, even though research has shown that these gifts bias our clinical decision making. Internist, Rochester, Minnesota Those so-called free medication samples of the newest and most expensive drugs may not be the best or safest.--Internist, PhiladelphiaDoctors get paid each time they visit their patients in the hospital, so if you're there for seven days rather than five, they can bill for seven visits. The hospital often gets paid only for the diagnosis code, whether you're in there for two days or ten. Evan S. Levine, MDWhen a parent asks me what the cause of her child's fever could be, I just say it's probably a virus. If I told the truth and ran through the long list of all the other possible causes, including cancer, you'd never stop crying. It's just too overwhelming. Pediatrician, Hartsdale, New York60% of doctors don't follow hand-washing guidelines. Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report96% of doctors agree they should report impaired or incompetent colleagues or those who make serious mistakes, but ...94% of doctors have accepted some kind of freebie from a drug company.Source: New England Journal of Medicine58% doctors would give adolescents contraceptives without parental consent. Source: New England Journal of MedicineYour doctor or nurse may have messed up your meds.Doctors in training look the same as doctors in charge.Your medical records are not confidential. If your charts are an open book, it boosts the odds that sensitive details about your health will slip into the hands of people who could use them against you—employers, ex-spouses, or medical identity thieves, says Deborah Peel, M.D., founder and chairwoman of the nonprofit advocacy group Patient Privacy Rights.Your doctor's hands may be filthy.Toronto doctor reveals secrets of hospital slang. Obese patients are “whales” or “beemers”. Old people are known as FTDs, or “failure to die”ER doctors want you to know ER is just like a horror movie. At first you're excited for every day, then there's lots of blood and screaming and crying and it's terrifying. And there's plenty of riddles, like, 'What exactly did you shove up there?!'" It takes an entire team to make an ER run. They work around the clock with little to no breaks. They care about you and they will fight for you.These are some secrets regarded to doctors including surgeons. They are also human beings and make mistakes. We need to collaborate with them to get the best results for your care. Understand them more.Thanks for reading.Sources:50 Secrets Hospitals Don’t Want to Tell You (But Every Patient Should Know)41 secrets your doctor would never share with you8 Secrets Your Hospital Keeps23 Things ER Employees Want You To KnowToronto doctor reveals secrets of hospital slang

It’s very hard to understand how any Christian can support Trump. Here are a few reasons why …Is Donald J. Trump the Antichrist? Is Trump the prophesied Beast of Revelation? Why does the number 666 keep turning up ― over and over again ― where Trump and his family are concerned, as carefully and extensively documented here? When the Hebrew prophets spoke of a "little horn" and the "Trump of Doom" were they speaking literally? Did they give us the ACTUAL NAME of the Antichrist, over 2,000 years ago?Please keep in mind that the Bible does not say there will be only one Antichrist. Rather, it tells us that we will know we are in the last days when we see many Antichrists. Even if Trump is not THE ANTICHRIST, he may be one of many Antichrists: "Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, so now many Antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour." (1 John 2:18)In the picture above, Trump attempts to deceive Christians by posing with a Bible he has obviously never read and certainly never attempted to live by, since he cheated on his pregnant wives, grabbed unsuspecting women by the genitals, and became wealthy by ripping off his hardworking subcontractors. Please note that the face of Trump's Bible is blank and completely black. The Bible being held by Trump is the Revised Standard Version, which has been rejected by evangelical Christians because it replaces "virgin" with "young woman," thus denying the Immaculate Conception. Trump has also been accused of holding the Bible upside down and backwards during the grotesque photo-op.What does God Almighty think of Trump? If there are no accidents with God, the coronavirus seems like a major clue. And in the picture above the last three words spell out: WELCOME EVER END. What does the Bible say will be the forEVER END of antichrists like Trump and their followers? Where will they be destined at the end of time? Are Christians going to risk their immortal souls on an evil creep like Trump?Trump was born on a blood moon in 1946. The founder of the Trump family business died on 6-6-6 and her name, Elizabeth Christ Trump, literally means "vow for Christ to be trumped" (because the name Elizabeth means "oath" or "vow"). The Trumps purchased the most expensive American building, the skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue, a street symbolic of money (Mammon), for 1.8 billion dollars (and that's three more sixes). The famous Trump Tower is 203 meters tall and that equals 666 feet. The Trump penthouse is on the 66th floor. Trump's first fiscal budget deficit was 666 billion dollars, as reported by Fox and other conservative news sources. On the Ides of March, the day Rome went from a republic to a dictatorship, Trump had 666 delegates (see the hellish image below).And what about this Trump family property?The picture above is 666 Fifth Avenue, a street symbolic of money (Mammon). The Trump's other New York City properties form a pentagram around the 666 centerpiece, beginning in Hell's Kitchen. The 666 building is home to Lucent (Lucifer) Technologies and its RFID microchip (the Mark of the Beast). Lucent has technologies called Inferno, Styx and Limbo. The 666 building appears in the movies Exorcist II: The Heretic and The Wolf of Wall Street.Another Trump Fifth Avenue property, the babylonian Trump Tower (pictured above), is 203 meters tall according to multiple reports. And 203 meters = 666 feet. Trump has a gold-and-diamond-encrusted penthouse on the Trump Tower's 66th floor, complete with paintings of Apollo and erotic statues of the pagan Greek sex god Eros and his consort Psyche. Trump Tower is a modern Tower of Babel, a pagan Ziggurat complete with hanging gardens like those of Babylon, in the form of an inverted pyramid (just above the streetlight). And please keep in mind that Kush, the son of Ham who was cursed by God, was the founder of Babylon. Of course Jared Kushner is Trump's son-in-law, meaning that his daughter is now Ivanka Kushner. She abandoned Christianity for Judaism and is presumably raising her children as Jews.On August 21, 2019 we saw Trump fully reveal himself as a false Messiah when he tweeted the claim that he is the "King of Israel" and the "Second Coming of God." Jesus was called the King of Israel as he was tormented and crucified. Israel has never had a king since. Later the same day Trump announced, "I Am the Chosen One!" as he looked mockingly up to the heavens. Please note that Trump used the biblical "I Am" when he completed his unholy trinity of heresies. The Bible predicts that the Antichrist ("the man of sin") will claim to be God (I Am) and thus the true King of Israel (2 Thessalonians 2:3-10).Did Christians elect the Antichrist, making him president of the United States and putting him in charge of the world's biggest economy, most powerful military and nuclear codes? Were the elect deceived, just as the ancient prophets warned they would be? Four out of five evangelical Christians voted for Trump, according to exit polls.The picture above was taken in North Charleston, SC, where Donald Trump spoke with apparent relish about the joys of torture and soaking bullets in pig's blood prior to mass executions. Pig's blood is often used in satanic rituals. One observer said Trump exhibited a "giddy, almost childlike, enthusiasm" for torture and mass executions.What will happen to Christians who flock after a man who is the exact opposite of Jesus Christ in every way? Will they be the goats who claimed to follow Jesus, calling him "Lord! Lord!" only to hear him say on the last day: "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity!" Revelation says Christians who follow the Beast will "drink of the wine of the wrath of God." Why would Christians risk damnation when they reject Christ by supporting Trump?In a town hall meeting with Sean Hannity on June 25, 2020, Trump called himself a "perfect person" then asked the audience, "Isn't that true?" Hannity had the grace to grimace when Trump called himself "perfect" and immediately called for a break. Of course no true Christian would call himself "perfect" because that is to equate oneself with Jesus Christ. But on Jan. 13, 2014, Trump tweeted: "I consider myself too perfect and have no faults." And when Frank Luntz asked Trump directly if he ever asked God for forgiveness, Trump said that he didn't. "I try to do something right," Trump said. "I don't bring God into that picture." Trump then went on to belittle Holy Communion and the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ by speaking dismissively of his "little cracker" and "little wine." Real Christians simply don't talk like that, so why is Trump running around waving a Bible?The Trump coat of arms (on the right below) contains three snakelike number six symbols in mirror images on the left and right. The tails of the three lions in the center shield form a third snakelike 666. There are more snakelike sixes in the branches and leaves. The Trump coat of arms was quite obviously copied from the Davies family coat of arms (on the left). The word Integritas (Integrity) was replaced by Trump (Deceit) and the gaudy golden sixes were added. Joseph Edward Davies was the third husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the socialite who built Mar-a-Lago. The Davies family has considered suing Trump over the stolen coat of arms, according to the BBC and New York Times. In any case, everything about Trump is false: his hair, his coat of arms, his fraudulent "charity," his fraudulent "university," etc.Jesus Christ, full of love, mercy and compassion, said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." What would the Antichrist, the antithesis of Christ, say and do? Of course he would do the opposite. Trump has children ripped from their mothers' breasts, never to be reunited, then throws toddlers into icy cages without blankets, soap or toothpaste. How can Christians support the author of such unthinkable cruelty? And now Trump has turned his pitiless gaze on 76 million American school children. In the middle of a pandemic, when he says his friend Roger Stone, a convicted convict, isn't safe in a federal prison and commutes his sentence ... when the national championship LSU and Clemson football squads can't field teams with more than 30 positive tests each ... when the super-conditioned athletes of Tour de France and Olympics can't compete ... and while Trump himself is surrounded by a phalanx of doctors, nurses and other attendants working day and night to keep him virus-free ... Trump intends to force kindergartners and grade schoolers to do what adults can't do, by demanding they return to unsafe schools! And yet Trump calls regulations to protect the children "too tough" and "too expensive"? Of course there is plenty of money to fund his constant golf vacations and ultra-extravagant lifestyle. Trump is doing exactly what we would expect the Antichrist to do: in every instance the exact opposite of what Christ would do.Is the pandemic trying to tell us something about Trump? New York City became the global epicenter of the plague, and that is where Trump was born and raised and chose to erect his Babylonian Trump Tower. When Trump moved the Republican National Convention to Florida, his second home and the location of his Mar-a-Lago estate, Florida became the new epicenter. When Trump arrogantly held a rally in Tulsa, the governor of Oklahoma became the first American governor to contract the coronavirus and Herman Cain died from the disease shortly thereafter. When Trump persisted with a second rally at Mount Rushmore, his namesake son's girlfriend became infected. If there are no accidents with God, what is God trying to tell us about Trump? Christians once voted for Mussolini and Hitler. We all know what happened to Italy and Germany as a result. They were destroyed, with tremendous loses of life. Is the coronavirus a judgment on Americans for electing a president who is the exact opposite of Jesus Christ in every way, and therefore the definition of an Antichrist? The Bible says God's wrath will be poured out on those who support Antichrists, with the first manifestation of that wrath being a terrible plague. Now we have the coronavirus. When German and Italian Christians abandoned the example and teachings of Jesus Christ to follow Antichrists, their nations were destroyed. Was that an accident of fate, or the judgment of God Almighty? Why has the United States been singled out for the worst horrors of the coronavirus — even worse than Russia, China and North Korea with their godless rulers? Is the answer staring back at us in the picture below?Is this the face of a man we can trust, or is this a Deceiver: a con man, a snake oil salesman, a shaman? Do you trust this man? What does your gut tell you? Would Jesus Christ have supported this man? How can Christians support a man who is the opposite of Jesus in every way—the very definition of the word "Antichrist"?One critical difference between Jesus and the Antichrist is honesty. The Bible calls Satan the "Father of Lies" (John 8:44). The Antichrist will be the Father of Lies in the flesh, so we can expect the Antichrist to lie at every turn. These are just a few of the lies Trump told about the Coronavirus pandemic, when he chose to put his "brand" and reelection above the lives and health of Americans and their children: "We have it totally under control! We're doing a fantastic job! It's a hoax! It's fake news! We're prepared! We're not prepared and it's someone else's fault! I don't take responsibility at all! We're doing a great job! We shut it down! It will just go away, like a miracle! It miraculously goes away with the heat in April! It's very mild! I give myself a perfect ten! We have very little problem! It's really working out! The numbers are going very substantially down, not up!If the Coronavirus is "fake news" and a "hoax," why are Americans dying in staggering numbers? Why does Trump keep saying that he "shut it down" if it's a hoax? He could simply expose a hoax; there would be no need to shut it down. No one would die if it were a hoax. There would be no need to shut down schools, colleges, conventions and professional sports. There would be no need to quarantine elderly people in nursing homes and keep them from hugging their loved ones. There would be no need to spend trillions of dollars if it were a hoax. Obviously, the coronavirus pandemic is not a hoax. So why is Trump lying? Because it is his nature to lie. And that is what we would expect from a reverse Christ: the Father of Lies in the flesh.These are the top ten connections of Donald Trump to the number 666. The connections will be explained in more detail if you continue reading.(1) The Trumps purchased the most expensive building ever bought in the US, at 666 Fifth Avenue, a street symbolic of hubris, greed and money (Mammon).(2) The Trumps paid $1.8 billion for the 666 tower. And 18 = 3*6 = 666. The 666 tower was bought by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Kush was the patriarch of Babylon, the son of the cursed Ham, and the father of Nimrod who created of the Tower of Babel.(3) According to multiple reports, the famous Trump Tower is 203 meters tall. And 203 meters = 666 feet. The Trump penthouse is on the 66th floor.(4) The Trumps are also in the process of building a $666 million tower at One Journal Square. According to multiple reports the height will be 666 feet.(5) In Trump's first fiscal year which started in 2016 (2016 = 666+666+666+6+6+6) the budget deficit exploded to 666 billion dollars (per Fox Business). Trump tweeted his congratulations for the budget passage on October 27, 2017. The bavister.org Julian Date calculator confirms that a Julian date of 6666 translates to the date of Trump's tweet.(6) Donald Trump inherited his grandmother's real estate empire when she died on June 6, 1966 = 6-6-6. Her name was Elizabeth Christ Trump. Elizabeth means "vow" so her name literally means "Vow for Christ to be Trumped."(7) On the Ides of March, the day Rome went from a republic to a dictatorship, Trump had 666 delegates.(8) The 2016 election was "all Trump all the time" and 2016 = 666+666+666+6+6+6.(9) Donald Trump's name equates to 666 in Jewish gematria, English gematria, and ASCII computer code. This can be confirmed with Google searches and online gematria calculators.(10) Trump's fearmongering comments about "rapists" and "drug dealers" vaulted him to the top of the polls on June 6, 2015 = 6+6+(1+5) = 666. Trump announced his candidacy for president on June 16, 2015 = 6+(1*6)+(1+5) = 666. Trump uttered his unholy trinity of heresies on August 21, 2019, when he claimed to be the "King of Israel," the "second coming of God" and the "Chosen One." August 21 was the 233rd day of the year, and 2*3*3 = 18 = 6+6+6.Also, as explained in detail later on this page the infamous Trump Tower meeting was arranged on June 6, 2016 = 6-6-6, as documented by emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone (who was acting as an agent for the "Crown prosecutor of Russia"). That meeting threw the presidential election to Donald Trump. Thus on 6-6-6 the godless Russian government conspired to help the Antichrist become the most powerful man in the world. Three days later, on June 9, 2016 = 6-9-6, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had a backdoor meeting with Russian government agent Natalia Veselnitskaya, in which the evil deal was negotiated. Trump then tweeted this about Vladimir Putin: "A guy calls me a genius and they want me to renounce him? I’m not going to renounce him." That message was tweeted on June 16, 2016 = 6+(1*6)+(1*6) = 6-6-6. (As explained later on this page, Putin has made it illegal for Russian Christians to share their faith in their own homes. But Trump can find no fault in his fellow Antichrist!) Then, in what has been called the "pivotal event" in Trump's collusion with Russia, a meeting was held in the Grand Havana Room of the 666 Fifth Avenue tower. The Grand Havana Room is suite #39, and that is 3 times an inverted 6, or 666. The participants were Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian military intelligence agent whose nickname was "Kostya, the guy from the GRU." The three men met in secret and left by different doors. That meeting goes "very much to the heart of what the special counsel's office is investigating [i.e., collusion]," prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told a federal judge in a sealed statement. This was apparently the meeting at which Manafort and Gates conspired with Kilimnik to throw the 2016 election to Trump with Russia's help, in return for Trump freeing Russia from billions in sanctions and looking the other way at Russia's crimes in Crimea and Ukraine. It is also important to note that the Russian military intelligence agent Guccifer 2.0 had a code name created by combining Gucci and Lucifer. Gucci is the Trump Tower's largest tenant. Lucifer is the enemy of God and the Father of Lies. Did the lies that made Trump the most powerful man in the world originate with a Russian agent operating inside the Trump Tower?What Will Happen to Christians Who Support Antichrists?The Bible's direst warnings are reserved for Christians who follow and support Antichrists. The New Testament warns against this Great Apostasy in no uncertain terms. What Christian in his or her right mind would risk the Bible's ultimate punishments for an evil, lying, cold-blooded con man like Trump? It completely baffles me that any Christian can be taken in by such a fraud. And what will the ultimate cost be? Jesus himself said that on the Day of Judgment many people who called him "Lord! Lord!" would be turned away along with the goats, being told: "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity!"To see how Trump fulfills Biblical prophecies, just click the hyperlink.Trump "Loves" Other AntichristsTrump has professed his love for Kim Jong-un, a man who relentlessly persecutes Christians because they refuse to join his cult and worship him. Open Doors, an organization that seeks to help and protect persecuted Christians, explains what it's like to be a Christian in North Korea: "For three generations, everything in the country has focused on idolizing the leading Kim family. Christians are seen as hostile elements that have to be eradicated. If Christians are discovered, not only are they deported to labor camps as political criminals or even killed on the spot, their families will share their fate as well. Christians do not have even the slightest space in society. Meeting other Christians in order to worship is almost impossible and if some believers dare to, it must be done in utmost secrecy. The churches shown to visitors in Pyongyang serve mere propaganda purposes." North Korea has been number one on Open Doors' World Watch List—the worst place on earth to be a Christian—for more than a decade. There are tens of thousands of Christians who are imprisoned or under arrest because of their faith in North Korea. But Trump "fell in love" with Kim Jong-un, the man who demands that all worship must be directed only at him, and that every knee must bend only to him. Trump has also expressed similar admiration and affection for other persecutors of Christians, including Vladimir Putin and the kings and princes of Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, converts to Christianity have been executed. Anyone who performs mission work or converts a Muslim faces jail, expulsion, lashing, torture and/or execution. Even private worship by foreign Christians is prohibited. But Trump has only praise for the world's cruelest and most avid persecutors of Christians. Do you really think Trump is a Christian when he won't say a word in defense of the world's most persecuted Christians?And yet Rick Perry recently called Trump "the Chosen One" who was "ordained by God."MAGA is an Occult phrase ...What does MAGA mean, really? A MAGA or MAGUS is a follower of the Sun God. Lucifer is a sun god, called the "morning star." Thus a MAGUS is a magician, a sorcerer, an astrologer. MAGI is the plural form of MAGA/MAGUS and we all know the story of the three MAGI who followed and interpreted the stars. But Lucifer's false star would lead followers to their doom. Is the mark of the Beast a red cap that identifies its wearers as followers of Trump? Simon Magus was an occult enemy of early Christianity who loved money and power. The sin of simony (selling out the church and its principles for profit) is named after Simon Magus, but now many Christians are supporting Trump, who also loves money and power. How can a man who gold-plates his toilets be a Christian, when the Bible clearly says that a man cannot serve God and Mammon?At a rally in Iowa in 2016, Donald Trump said: "I like money. I’m very greedy. I’m a greedy person. I shouldn’t tell you that, I’m a greedy — I’ve always been greedy. I love money, right?And let's not forget that the theme song to The Apprentice was "For the Love of Money," with Almighty God replaced by "the Almighty Dollar."Trump's real allegiance is to Mammon, and thus according to the Bible, he must hate God. And indeed he seems to despise every teaching of Christ and always does exactly the opposite of what Jesus would do!Trump repeatedly forms occult symbols with his hands ...Beastly Behavior?And what about Donald Trump's creepy, incestuous-sounding comments about his daughter Ivanka? ...BuzzFeed reported that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen quoted Trump asking of his 13-year-old daughter Ivanka: "Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife?"When Trump was watching his 16-year-old daughter Ivanka host the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, he turned to the then-Miss Universe and asked: "Don't you think my daughter's hot? She's hot, right?"Trump said on the Howard Stern Show in 2003 when Ivanka was 22 that "she's got the best body." Trump bragged about his daughter's body, saying: "You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's six feet tall, she's got the best body. She made a lot money as a model—a tremendous amount."The next year, 2004, Trump told Howard Stern that it was okay to call his daughter "a piece of ass."Trump: "My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka."Stern: "By the way, your daughter…"Trump: "She's beautiful!"Stern: "Can I say this? A piece of ass."Trump: "Yeah."The same year, Trump said: "Let me tell you one thing: Ivanka is a great, great beauty. Every guy in the country wants to go out with my daughter!"Is this how a father embraces his daughter?Trump and Ivanka appeared together on The View in 2006, while promoting season three of The Apprentice. When asked how he would react if Ivanka, a former teen model, posed for Playboy, Trump replied, "It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what's inside the magazine." He added: "I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. Isn't that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?" Yes, it would be terrible, because we all know what Trump does on his dates, as attested by porn stars and other women.Is this how a father kisses his daughter?On the Howard Stern Show, in October 2006, Stern remarked that Ivanka "looks more voluptuous than ever" and asked if she had breast implants. "She's actually always been very voluptuous," Trump responded. "She's tall, she's almost six feet tall and she's been, she's an amazing beauty." Just an average father discussing his daughter's boobs on nationwide media!What kind of father describes his daughter as voluptuous and keeps talking about how he would like to "date" her, when we all know that means having sexual intercourse with her?In 2013, Donald and Ivanka Trump were guests on the Wendy Williams Show and they were asked to play a game called "Fave Five." Wendy asked Ivanka, "What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?" Ivanka replied, "Either real estate or golf." When it was Trump's turn to answer, he said, "I was going to say sex but I can't relate that to her." But the thought seems to always spring into his mind when his daughter's name is mentioned.In a Rolling Stone interview in September 2015, Trump said: "Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father..."On the Dr. Oz show in September 2016, Trump was discussing long-awaited details about his health, and was joined on stage for the pre-record by Ivanka. After they kissed, the host commented: "It's nice to see a dad kiss his daughter." According to several studio witnesses, Trump replied that he kisses Ivanka "with every chance [he] gets." The comment was apparently edited out of the final cut of the show when it aired.