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- Lewiston is a port city. Ships go down the Snake and Columbia rivers and then out to the Pacific Ocean.
- Rigby is known as the birthplace of television because it’s where inventor Philo T. Farnsworth came up with the idea for television.
- The Boise statehouse is heated by underground hot springs.
- The National Old Time Fiddlers Contest is held in Weiser. Weiser is also home to the National Fiddlers Hall of Fame.
- Two-thirds of all potatoes grown in the United States are grown in Idaho.
- Idaho produces 72 kinds of gemstones, including rubies, opals, jasper, and quartz.
- The deepest river gorge in North America is Hell’s Canyon, at 7,900 feet (2,400 m) deep.
- Shoshone Falls, near Twin Falls, drops 52 feet (16 m) farther than Niagara Falls.
- One of the largest diamonds ever discovered in the United States, almost 20 carats, was found near McCall.
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