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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?

There's also Washington Island. It's nowhere near Washington state or DC. It's in Lake Michigan, and is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aside from the island, Wisconsin has 7 different towns named Washington, though most of them have a population in the hundreds.

Of course they have nothing on Indiana, which has 46 towns named Washington, or Iowa, which has 49.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Township

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A disambiguation page of disambiguation pages. Damn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And both University of Washington, in the state, and wash U, in St. Louis. Both are major medical centers.