- Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:44 pm#8946
1. The Space Needle in Seattle was originally sketched on a napkin.
2. The Original City of Seattle is Underground.
3. The famous Pike Place Market originally started due to overpriced onions.
4. Seattle was founded by the Denny Party in 1851.
5. Despite having infamous rainy weather in winter, Seattle receives less annual rainfall than New York, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston.
6. There is a big troll living under one of Seattle’s bridges.
7. Seattle is one of America’s most well-educated cit-ies.
8. The eye of the Fremont Troll is made out of a VW Beetle hubcap.
9. Seattle is home to the world’s first floating bridge and the world’s longest and widest floating bridge.
10. Seattle has an entire wall filled with used gum.
11. Pike Place Market is Seattle’s top attraction today, but it was in danger of being destroyed in 1963.
12. Gold was discovered in the Canadian Klondike region in 1896, thus starting the largest boom peri-od in Seattle, called the Klondike Gold Rush.
13. Seattle is one of the country’s most eco-friendly cities.
14. Seattlites are quite cultured. It is ranked as the most literary city in the US with the highest per-centage of citizens with a college degree or higher.
15. The bronze pig and the flying fish of Pike Place Market have interesting backstories.
16. Seattleites purchase sunglasses in spades.
17. The first Starbucks is not in Pike Place Market. The very first Starbucks opened in 1971 at 2000 Western Avenue and no longer exists.
18. People in Seattle buy the most sunglasses per capita than in any other U.S. city.
19. Seattle is (allegedly) home to the world’s first gas station.
20. Seattle Seahawks Fans Caused An Earth-quake.
21. The name Seattle comes from Chief Seattle, or Chief Si’ahl, who was a prominent Native American leader.
22. The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is the longest floating bridge in the world. It’s an incredi-ble 2,285 meters long and connects Seattle and Bellevue.
23. Seattle has several nicknames like Emerald City, Jewel of the Northwest, and Future Queen City of the Pacific.
24. Seattle was the first major American city to have a female mayor.
25. Seattle’s most-photographed object is not the Space Needle.
2. The Original City of Seattle is Underground.
3. The famous Pike Place Market originally started due to overpriced onions.
4. Seattle was founded by the Denny Party in 1851.
5. Despite having infamous rainy weather in winter, Seattle receives less annual rainfall than New York, Atlanta, Boston, and Houston.
6. There is a big troll living under one of Seattle’s bridges.
7. Seattle is one of America’s most well-educated cit-ies.
8. The eye of the Fremont Troll is made out of a VW Beetle hubcap.
9. Seattle is home to the world’s first floating bridge and the world’s longest and widest floating bridge.
10. Seattle has an entire wall filled with used gum.
11. Pike Place Market is Seattle’s top attraction today, but it was in danger of being destroyed in 1963.
12. Gold was discovered in the Canadian Klondike region in 1896, thus starting the largest boom peri-od in Seattle, called the Klondike Gold Rush.
13. Seattle is one of the country’s most eco-friendly cities.
14. Seattlites are quite cultured. It is ranked as the most literary city in the US with the highest per-centage of citizens with a college degree or higher.
15. The bronze pig and the flying fish of Pike Place Market have interesting backstories.
16. Seattleites purchase sunglasses in spades.
17. The first Starbucks is not in Pike Place Market. The very first Starbucks opened in 1971 at 2000 Western Avenue and no longer exists.
18. People in Seattle buy the most sunglasses per capita than in any other U.S. city.
19. Seattle is (allegedly) home to the world’s first gas station.
20. Seattle Seahawks Fans Caused An Earth-quake.
21. The name Seattle comes from Chief Seattle, or Chief Si’ahl, who was a prominent Native American leader.
22. The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is the longest floating bridge in the world. It’s an incredi-ble 2,285 meters long and connects Seattle and Bellevue.
23. Seattle has several nicknames like Emerald City, Jewel of the Northwest, and Future Queen City of the Pacific.
24. Seattle was the first major American city to have a female mayor.
25. Seattle’s most-photographed object is not the Space Needle.
- By mousumi