I happen to know (some useless bit of crap)

[gga]

People like to point out Interstate 99 is an egregious violation of the rules but there are no others available. The highest odd number not in use, I believe, is 67. 65 and 69 run through Indianapolis, which is 400 miles almost exactly due west of the start of 99.

Politics, politics, politics.

I've actually driven the PA segment of I-99. Doing so piqued my interest into why it was assigned the number it had been, knowing that it "shouldn't be here" according to the numbering rules.

 

[mynameisben]

IHTKT the stylized Y you see on signs such as "Ye Olde Candy Shoppe" is not a Y at all, but rather an old English letter called Thorn. Its origins date back many centuries to Scandinavian runes, but in its latest English incarnation it was a digraph that stood for the letters "th". Thus the https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Middle_English_the.svg/8px-Middle_English_the.svg.png in https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Middle_English_the.svg/8px-Middle_English_the.svg.png Olde Candy Shoppe always was pronounced as "the," and never as "yee" until Hollywood movies popularized the mispronunciation.


Ben

 

[VoraciousValue]

I've been a competitive trivia player for so long that I could probably fill 500 pages of this thread by myself.

The state of Vermont voted for the first Presidential nominee of the Republican Party in 1856, the legendary "Pathfinder," John C. Fremont. Counting that win, Vermont voted Republican in 27 consecutive Presidential elections. That included the FDR landslide of 1936, when Republican Alf Landon won only Vermont and Maine.

Vermont's streak was broken when that state voted 2-1 for Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

 

[VoraciousValue]

Politics, politics, politics.

I've actually driven the PA segment of I-99. Doing so piqued my interest into why it was assigned the number it had been, knowing that it "shouldn't be here" according to the numbering rules.

I like the idea of Interstate 99. It connects a lot of smaller Rust Belt cities to the greater Interstate network, which is usually a good thing.

 

[VoraciousValue]

The last battle of the American Civil War was the Battle of Palmito Ranch on May 13, 1865 (some two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered) on the Mexican border outside of Brownsville, Texas. The final clash was a Confederate victory.