Just sayin'

• The most common nickname for Portland is The City of Roses, and this became the city's official nickname in 2003. Other nicknames include Stumptown, Bridgetown, Rip City, Little Beirut, Beervana, Beertown, P-Town, Portlandia and PDX.
• If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19.
• Oregon has no sales tax and is one of only two states where it’s illegal to pump your own gas (New Jersey is the other).
• 25 per cent of all the retail establishments in the U.S are for eating or drinking.
• Mexico has seven hundred and seven species of reptiles, four hundred and thirty eight species of mammals, two hundred and ninety species of amphibians, and about twenty six thousand species of flora.
• Alaskan citizens do not pay any state taxes; instead every person over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year.
• American car horns beep in the tone of F.
  
• There are twice as many Kangaroos in Australia as people.
  
• The hazelnut is Oregon’s official state nut and Oregon is the only state that has an official state nut.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• On the Las Vegas strip of Las Vegas, Nevada, unlike every other locality in Nevada, city law allows the possession and consumption of alcohol on the street.
• The official name of Mexico is Estados Únidos Mexicanos.
• There are no Starbucks in Mexico and only one Ben & Jerries.
• Kurt Cobain and Courtney love met in Portland.
  
• Musician Elliott Smith, Filmmaker Gus Van Sant and Animator Matt Groening all hail from Portland.
  
• Mill Ends Park in Portland, the world’s smallest official park, measures two feet across. It was created in 1948 for the leprechauns, and a place to hold snail races on St. Patrick’s Day.
• The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has enough steel wires in its cables to circle the earth at the equator 3.5 times.
• The Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular suicide site in the world.
• Portland is widely considered to have more strip clubs per capita than Las Vegas or San Francisco.
• "Keep Portland Weird" is a slogan that appears on bumper stickers in Portland, Oregon, and is intended to promote local businesses. The consensus is that Portland is one of the weirder major cities in the U.S.
  
• Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
• If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.

- Some things I have learnt along the way