Kelowna BC has two: Kelowna is a native word for "Grizzly Bear" and it has a lake monster. Actually the Okanagan Lake has the lake monster (Ogopogo)...Kelowna just sits on the edge of the lake.

Pittsburgh, PA Sorry more than one.

The Steel City boasts 446 bridges, more than any other city in the world.

Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchisee, invented the Big Mac in Pittsburgh in 1967.

When WQED first aired in 1954, it became the first public television station in the United States. Home of Mr Rodgers Neighborhood.

And we have our own words and phrases that only Pittsburghers can understand.

We were first settled by Mexican farmers that the Conquistadores brought up with them from Mexico over 400 years ago. My good friend is a direct descendent of one of those farmers. Her family has long been leaders here, of one sort or another, ever since then.

Even people who live here don't know this: Wallis Simpson lived here with her first husband for a short time, when he was posted at a nearby base. Several years later, she visited friends in a neighboring town with her boyfriend, the would-be Edward VIII.

Ummm...Where?

Johannesburg is said to be the largest man-made urban forest in the world. There were barely any trees here when gold was discovered in the late 19th century. And yes, the jacarandas are blooming right now. Yay! (It's illegal to plant them these days but we don't have to cut down the existing ones, praise be.)

Bath, Ohio was the home of Jeffrey Dahmer when he was a teen. My sister took piano lessons in the house where they found his first victim (he didn't live there yet.) He went to my high school.

I don't know any fun facts. :/

We lived in Bethel til I was 4 - 5, and I loved that sleepy little town.

Angus King was our governor from 1995 - 2003, and Olympia Snow was a state senator from 1995 - 2013.

"Bethel, Maine was the home of the World's Tallest Snowman in 1999 - and
then we beat our own record in 2008 with the World's Tallest Snowwoman!
(They melted, of course!) To put these giants into perspective -- Angus,
King of the Mountain was about 10 stories tall; Olympia SnowWoman was
about 11 stories tall! Their mouths were car tires, buttons were skidder
tires, their arms were 25' spruce trees, and their hats were 16' and
20' diameter fabric made by middle school students. Olympia's eyelashes
were alpine skis -- and just to die for!" http://www.bethelmaine.com/snow-people

The man who invented the plastic orange Highway Cones was from my town. Made (and is still) making a fortune from that little "invention". The original cones were concrete and a gentleman from California came up with the idea of cones.

Bradford, MA childhood home of Rob Zombie!!

The site of one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolutionary War.

From 1856 until 2011, our town was dry. Thanks to Hannah Jumper and her 200 friends, who planned and executed a raid on the town, smashing and destroying all the barrels, bottles and holds of liquor.

Both her grave and her home remain intact and are marked as historical sites.

Arlington MA is the birthplace of Uncle Sam. also, the patent holder for loop the loop roller coasters lived on my street in the 1800s.

The chair lift was invented in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Omaha, NE...where Johnny Carson started his broadcasting career.

Oh...and thank you, Peyton Manning, for always yelling "Omaha" at the line of scrimmage. :-)

ninigret, we are neighbors.

Blue Island, Illinois, was so named as it sits on the high point, surrounded (at that time) by the much lower marshland. The morning fog / methane release would make the area appear as a "blue island".

Coudersport, Pennsylvania, population 2600, is the birthplace of Elliot Ness, the school district has a density of one pupil per square mile. The movie "Runaway Train" was filmed in the surrounding area. All the roads are marked as "scenic" on road atlases, leaf peepers abound.

In the 1950's & 60's residents of Phoenix, Arizona, towed water-skiers down the narrow "water supply canals" by means of a car driven along the shoulder of said canals.

The United States of America has the most varied climates, and weather, of any land mass on the planet.

Vulcan sits atop Red Mountain, looking over downtown Birmingham, AL. At 56 feet tall, he is the largest cast iron statue in the world. Vulcan reflects our history in the iron and steel industry. He was created by Italian sculpture Giuseppe Moretti for Birmingham's entry in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World's Fair in St Louis). He rested at our fairgrounds after the World's Fair until 1936 when he was put on Red Mountain. Every 4th of July, Vulcan enjoys a close view of Fire on the Mountain.

Vulcan was removed from 1999 to 2004 (he was deeply missed!!) while he and the pedestal were restored. He had developed several holes and was rusting internally. Over the years he has held a lighted torch (green unless someone had been killed in the last 24 hours in a traffic accident - a drive safely reminder - when it was red)....

....Coke bottle, Heinz pickle and ice cream. He's back to holding an arrow. Vulcan was also dressed in a pair of Liberty denim overalls, made locally. I'm sure they just wanted to cover his famous tush locals call Moon over Homewood.

Los Gatos, CA: Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine went to my high school. Current home of Netflix.

Linelle, can we add Yaheudi Menuhin to famous Los Gatans :-) Los Gatos was our first home in California.

@Linelle and @Rita We are neighbors (and rivals)! I went to Saratoga High School. :)

Rita and Emily, get out!!!

Rita, my best friend from 7th grade got an after-school "job" helping Mrs. Menuhin around the house. They remained friends the rest of Mrs. Menuhin's life.

Emily, Saratoga High opened its doors to freshmen and sophomores when I was a freshman at LGHS. The juniors and seniors from Saratoga stayed at LG and Saratoga added a class each year until it had all four years. When I was in high school Campbell High (no longer there) was our bitter rival and we met on Thanksgiving. They would come over and burn a "C" on our beautiful front lawn that would last a year.

I grew up just on the LG side of LG/Monte Sereno.

I love our 'hood.

PS And I love the people in our area. It's pretty blissful

The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher.

Jack Benny and Ray Bradbury are from Waukegan IL, where i lived for thirty years. My husband wrote Benny's obit for the paper.

Buffalo, NY, home of chicken wings! People in Buffalo do not refer to them as Buffalo Wings, either chicken wings or just wings.

Although Anchor Bar is a fun trip if you are in town, there are a lot of mom and pop pizza and wings restaurants or takeouts that have great wings.

Home of the largest outdoor chandelier.

It's not exactly a fun fact, but Dr. H. H. Holmes built a home for his wife and children in our town while he murdered up to 200 people (mostly young women) during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Erik Larson's Devil in The White City is a fascinating telling of the story.

Also Bill Murray was raised here—now that is fun!

Cit, Cleveland?

disfromage, I'm just a few towns up the shore from you (waving from the beach). You are also the home of the only Ba'hai temple in North America, and it is beautiful.

Yes, Cleveland. Also largest theater district in the country outside NYC.

Toronto has the largest underground pedestrian system in North America. Called PATH, it's over 28 kilometres long, and connects 1200 restaurants and stores, 50 office towers, many condos, five subway stations, a railway terminal and 20 parking garages.

Since I have several "hometowns" I can pick-and I always pick the one that I consider my most real one. So. Not sure it's much fun, but. We have our own unique disease..:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome

Houston BC - World's largest fly rod!

Technically speaking my "hometown" (where I was born and raised) is also called Space City. But where I know reside, we are known for the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in.

About Pretoria:

Pretoria had the world's biggest soccer ball, atop a tower for the 2010 World Cup. It was 24 meters across, 8 storeys high, & 50 tonnes in weight, and was constructed of fibreglass shells which were mounted & supported by steel frames on the inside. - I knew it was there, I hadn't known the record size.

During the Anglo-Boer war, Winston Churchill was imprisoned in a school in Pretoria at the age of 25, and eventually escaped to Mozambique. - I had no idea

One of the longest straight streets in the world, 26 km Church Street, is in Pretoria, though it's recently been renamed, and might be regarded as split into a few streets.

The largest diamond found, the Cullinan Diamond, was found in Pretoria in 1905.

And we're quite close to Rina in Joburg, so we also have the gorgeous Jacarandas. Pretoria is known as Jacaranda City :)

Apparently there's a belief among students at the University of Pretoria that if one of the flowers falls onto you, you'll do well in the exams.

Hi Najeebah. I thought our 2010 soccer ball on the Telkom tower in Johannesburg was the biggest, but I bow to your superior knowledge. With difficulty. :-)

My hometown had regular visits from Babe Ruth and his baseball friends... They would play baseball with the local kids then rabblerouse the night away at the local speak easy!

Google's knowledge Rina lol, Telkom favoured Pretoria :)

Wakefield, MA became the home of Wakefield Rattan Co in 1836. It prospered for many years and after founder Cyrus Wakefield's death, the company merged with Heywood Bros. Gardner, Ma. The company was then called Heywood-Wakefield.

If you are lucky enough to have a piece, it has become valuable…i.e. you can grab this little table on 1stdibs for $4850.00!

Belmont MA/Watertown MA

Belmont was the home of the headquarters of the John Birch Society from the organization's founding in 1958 until its relocation to Appleton WI in 1989.

The Perkins School for the Blind founded in 1829, has been located in Watertown since 1912. Helen Keller (1880–1968), attended the Perkins

Dover, NH--the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire, and seventh in the United States.

Not my town, but less than an hour from me: home of the man who invented the bread slicer.

I thought of another one here in north Missouri: Sumner, Missouri, promoted as the Goose Hunting Capital of the World .

Home of the first Rural Free Delivery routes, 1891.

Also, the courthouse where the only two treason trials to occur in the US were litigated.

John Brown and Bill Blizzard (see Matewan post above)

Casey