AKA the best region in the entire country.
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1. A law was introduced in the Maine state legislature in 1939 to make it illegal to add tomatoes to clam chowder. (Because fuck Manhattan "clam chowder" or whatever that crap is.)
2. Dunkin' Donuts, which first opened in Quincy, MA, estimates that it sells more than 30 cups of coffee every second.
3. That amounts to 1.7 BILLION cups of coffee each year (iced and hot together).
4. Boston is home to the first subway system in North America, having begun in 1897.
5. The Library of Congress recognizes Louis Lassen, a resident of New Haven, CT, as having served the first hamburger in America, in 1900.
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6. The Hartford Courant, started in 1764, is the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication. It's older than the country itself, in fact.
7. Members of the von Trapp family, the real life family that inspired The Sound of Music, eventually settled in Stowe, Vermont. Their property has been turned into a hotel lodge, which screens the film for guests every week.
8. The all-time fastest recorded surface wind speed was recorded at Mount Washington, in New Hampshire. The wind reached 231 miles per hour.
9. Great Barrington, MA, was one of the first communities in the world to have electric street lights.
10. At one time, the Forster Manufacturing Co. in Maine was the leading manufacturer of toothpicks in the entire nation. It was also the first toothpick manufacturer in the country.
11. The portrait of George Washington used on dollar bills was created by Gilbert Stuart, a painter from Rhode Island.
12. The first person to go to jail for speeding — who was traveling at a whopping 15 miles per hour — was arrested in Newport, RI, in 1904.
13. The state with the most breweries per capita? Vermont. Maine clocks in at number four on the list.
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