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Fifty Square Miles of America Where No Jury Can Sit

Yellowstone covers about 3,471 square miles. Roughly 96% of it is in Wyoming. Around 3% spills into Montana, and about 1% — a strip of roughly 50 square miles — sits inside Idaho. That Idaho strip has lodgepole pine, rivers, a waterfall, grizzly bears and elk. It has no roads worth

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Florida Has 1.3 Million of Something in Every County

A woman in Fort Myers goes out to the lanai at seven in the morning and there is an eight-foot alligator in the swimming pool. This is not a rare news story. It's a recurring one. Pools, golf course fairways, storm drains, garages, the drive-through lane

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The Deadliest Body of Water in America Is a Lake

You're standing on a beach in Indiana on a July afternoon. The water is flat. There's no salt, no tide, no fin cutting the surface. Kids are in up to their knees. It reads as completely safe, and that reading is the problem. More than 1,

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New York Don't Feel Like America — Here's the Proof

Land in New York expecting America and you'll get something else entirely. Not a bigger version of the country — a different one, running its own rules. The numbers make the case better than any travel guide. Roughly 800 languages are spoken across the city, which linguists believe makes