a fun thing I've learned by being married to a Floridian: when we were all memorizing state flowers in 4th grade, they were learning the best strategies for escaping from an alligator.
Sudden visceral flashback to that dark red facts-about-Pennsylvania book we had to memorize in fourth grade and hey did you know that mountain laurel is both the state flower AND also a bushhttps://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1120670907394080773 …
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"want to hold this snake? I learned in 4th grade that this one is just a harmless lookalike of the most venomous snake in Florida, see, there's this little poem..."
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At least you had something. Washington State history is like beaver trappers, layover for the Gold Rush, Japanese internment (not covered)
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