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What if I told you there is enough water in just one Midwestern lake to submerge all of North and South America under a foot of water? Or that back in the 1200s, a Native American metropolis in Illinois was actually larger than London? From a bizarre chunk of land accidentally trapped inside Canada, to the engineering marvel that forced a massive river to flow backward, here are 15 incredible geography facts you never knew about the Midwest.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - The "Midwest" Doesn't Actually Exist on a Map
01:53 - Michigan Has the Longest Freshwater Coastline in the World
02:41 - Glaciers Missed a Massive Chunk of the Region
03:36 - Minnesota Has an Accidental Piece of Land in Canada
04:28 - Lake Superior is Mind-Bogglingly Huge
05:25 - Ohio and Michigan Almost Went to War Over a Map
06:25 - Chicago Reversed a River
07:25 - The Largest Pre-Columbian City North of Mexico Was in Illinois
08:23 - A 1785 Law Explains Why the Midwest Looks Like a Checkerboard
09:26 - A Six-Mile Mud Flat Created Chicago
10:20 - You Can Step Across the Mighty Mississippi River
11:14 - Iowa is the Most Biologically Altered State in the US
12:15 - Detroit Exists Strictly Because of a Geographic Chokepoint
13:12 - The "Sauna Capital" of the North
14:11 - Indiana's Motto is Completely Literal
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