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1 Highest Median Household IncomeAtherton, California ($200,001)

2 Youngest Residents Kiryas Joel, New York (15.0)

3 Oldest Residents Laguna Woods, California (78.0)

4 Longest Commuting Times Lake Los Angeles, California (53.6)

5 Shortest Commuting Times Fort Bliss, Texas (8.6)

6 Highest Percentage of Foreign-Born Residents Sweetwater, Florida (74.9%)

7 Highest Percentage of College Students Storrs, Connecticut (81.9%)

8 Least-Educated Cities Mecca, California (1.6% bachelor+, 17.7% high school+)

9 Safest Cities Norwood, Pennsylvania (5.7)

10 Least-Safe Cities Markham, Illinois (2405.7)

11 Largest Percentage of Females St. Joseph, Minnesota (68%, Median age: 21.8, pop. 4681)

12 Largest Percentage of Males Baldwin, Illinois (94%, Median age: 30.7, pop. 3627)

13 Houston was named after Sam Houston, Ok. Who named it? The Allen Bros.
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14 …those folks on the Mayflower? Religiously speaking, they weren't Puritans, they were Separatists, and anyway they called themselves "Saints."

15 …Samoset and Squanto already spoke English. Tisquantum

16 …Florentine named Amerigo Vespucci

17 Virginia was for a while called "Windgancon," meaning, "what gay clothes you wear,"

18 Jefferson was in favor of lowercasing "nature," "creator," and even "God."

19 Why is the South called Dixie? Because of the currency: the Citizens' Bank of New Orleans put out a $10 bill, with the French word for ten, "dix," on the back. They became known as "Dixies," and by the 1860s it had spread to become a descriptive term for the whole South.

20 …"dollar," a word first recorded in 1683, came from the Bohemian coin "Joachimstaler."