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Interesting facts about Baltimore

The Baltimore Washington Monument was the first planned, first started and second completed monument to honor our first President.
The paper in Washington's hand on that monument is his letter of resignation as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
Baltimore had it's own 'Tea Party'. Several months after the more famous Boston Tea party, The trade ship Peggy Stewart was burned down to the waterline because it had a small amount of tea aboard despite an active boycott.
Baltimore's World Trade Center is the worlds tallest 5-sided building.
The 'Bromo-Seltzer' tower in downtown Baltimore once had a huge replica bottle of the product on top. It was removed due to structural concerns.
The first Noxema factory was opened in a tiny Baltimore house in the 1920's and an early product slogan was “the miracle cream of Baltimore”.
When the National Aquarium was being built, then Mayor William Shaeffer swore it would be done on time or he'd go swimming in it. Good to his word, after a delay in construction caused the date to be missed, the colorful Mayor donned an old 1920's style striped bathing suit and a yellow life ring and jump into the open reef tank.
The Black-eyed Susan's presented to the winner of the Preakness, the second leg in horse racing's Triple-Crown, are actually hand painted daisies. Real Black-eyed Susan's don't bloom early enough!
The "Star Spangled Banner" didn't become the national anthem until Ripley's ''Believe It or Not' published a cartoon in 1929 saying that the U.S.A. didn't have a national anthem. This prompted a massive letter writing campaign to congress which resulted in Key's song being named the Official National Anthem of the United States.
Everyone knows that the Ravens used to be the Cleveland Browns but, did you know that the Orioles are also a relocated team. Prior to 1954, they were the St. Loius Browns!
In the late 70's-early 80's, Oprah Winfrey co-anchored the news and co-hosted "People are talking" on Baltimore television station WJZ-TV.

Baltimore City covers 80.94 square miles and is one of only two cities in the country surrounded by a county of the same name (Los Angelas is the other). There are 7,671 people per square mile and a total population of 620,961 in 2011. Over 77% of people over 25 years of age are High School Graduates. Baltimore's Inner Harbor, now a major tourist attraction, connects directly to the Chesapeake bay, the world's largest estuary and a major influence of the economy of the city, county and state.
Notable employers in Baltimore include Johns Hopkins Hospital, Constellation Energy, DAP and Under Armour.

Baltimore County covers 598.30 square miles and a density of 1,345 people per square mile (about 805,000 total). It has an 88.8% High School Graduate rate. The 2010 median household income is $63,959. The average temperature in Baltimore in July is 81.7 °F and in January is 36.8 °F. The county gets around 42" of rain and sees 105 sunny days with 45-50" of precipitation in a typical year.

Interesting facts about Maryland

The state colors are black and gold, the same as the Calvert coat of arms, the Baltimore flag and 1/2 of the Maryland flag.
The Orioles baseball team, the state bird (the Baltimore Oriole), state insect (Baltimore Checker-spot Butterfly), state flower (Black-eyed Susan), and the state cat (Calico) all share the state colors.
Maryland has both a state sport (jousting) and a state team sport (Lacrosse)

Maryland has 5,828,289 people living on 12,407 square miles. 2,633 square miles of Maryland are covered by water. Maryland's elevation ranges from 0 to 3,360 feet above sea level. There are 2,378,814 housing units with a 2006-2010 Median home value is $329,400 .