Fun Fact about your hometown/state

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Our state capitol building, which is very old and made of granite, has big chips in it and a busted stone windowsill on the side that faces the river.

This is because General Sherman sat across said river and used the building as a target to calibrate his cannons during the Civil War.


We have a scary creature called the "Third Eye Man" living underneath the University downtown.

One of our theaters (plays, not movies...One of the two I used to build sets for) predates the Civil War and has been a church, an armory, a hospital, a morgue, and gymnasium, and (get this) an olympic swimming pool. It's now a Shakespearean (in the round) theater, a scene shop, and a costume shop.

We have a fountain downtown that looks like a two story high busted fireplug, made by local artist Blue Sky. It's ugly. But it's fun.

There are two huge historic mansions downtown facing each other. One was built as a big "fuck you" to the builder of the other one.

Back in the eighties, we were a pretty important rock hub. In fact, Hootie and the Blowfish are from here.

The team mottos here are "Go Cocks", "Can't Beat Our Cocks", and my personal favorite, "Cant' Lick Our Cocks."

I couldn't make this stuff up, folks.

[Gumby30]

My old hometown is known for being the burial place for most of the Kray family - East End gangsters.

My current hometown is the last resting place of a King of England, even if no-one is EXACTLY sure where he is buried.

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Share something different or unusual about your hometown or state that would fall into a trivia book (i.e. in Rand McNally, hamburgers eat people )

I'll kick it off with a couple about my hometown:

-All around the city centre, there are a lot of buildings with the sign "POLITES" hanging over them. The reason behind it? A guy with the last name of Polites owns a lot of the buildings in the city centre. So he just labelled them with huge honking signs saying "I own this building!"

-We are the only state surrounded by all other states (this is Australia). Northern Territory does not count-it is a Territory, not a state.

-The film "December Boys", which involved Daniel Radcliffe and Teresa Palmer, was shot almost entirely on Kangaroo Island. That is one of our few claims to fame as far as "great" films go. (We've had a few films shot around the area, however they were kids films: Selkie and Sally Marshall is Not An Alien! were both filmed in my state, Selkie in fact was filmed not that far from home)

-We were the first colony (we became a state in 1901) to allow women to vote in Australia. We were also one of the first states to decriminalise homosexuality, due to a very prominent politician by the name of Don Dunstan. (he actually entered Parliament one day wearing pink shorts that ended above the knee)

-We created Farmers Union Iced Coffee and it is still the best Iced Coffee out there. (Although we didn't create the ad )