Think you know the Great Lakes? Here are some little-known facts

The Great Lakes are even greater than you thought! The Weather Network's Marta Czurylowicz some little-known facts about our backyard wonder. .

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[tj_]

You don’t mess around with the Great Lakes. Respect the water.

[RescueDogFam]

I live close to Lake Erie, I did know most of these facts.

[brysan]

❤ i love learning these things….thanks for posting this 😊

[MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

No mention about Michigan having more shoreline and beaches than California and Florida, even the most in the USA— other than Alaska which has more…. Also she should have mentioned that Michigan has the largest suspension bridge in the country. In fact, it’s far bigger than Golden Gate. The Mighty MAC is a whopping 5 miles longer. To add, she didn’t mention that the Great Lakes, which is really an ocean but without the salt, has the top vacation island in America (Mackinac Island). Recently, Time magazine rated one of the hotels on the island the best place in the world to visit. And, she should have mentioned that the Great Lakes has a popular island that forbidden cars. Perhaps, the Sleep Bear Dunes, which is a national park, deserves some publicity too.

[Rob-metoo]

I am 6 months into drinking all the water...

[acarriere]

where is the deepest part of the great lakes and how deep is it?

[whitesugarsweetchristine]

Most beautiful waterways.
Funny when a Lake cares for you and does more for you than a man with "money and power".
The lake brought my beauty back when no one else cared to help me.

[countryside]

You didn't mention that in Wisconsin we have rivers that flow North emptying into lake Michigan.

[John-PaulDifonzo]

At 11 to 25 seconds in, I recognised the place in the video and have been on those very shores before

[donw]

Here’s another fun fact Lake Michigan and Lake Huron I really just one lake

[michaelpjeffries]

Lake superior is an inland sea with islands which have own lake.

[gdent]

I'm originally from Manhattan Kansas moved to Muskegon Michigan in 2001 August 10th to be exact exactly 31 days before September 11th it was crazy I even flew and argued with the desk about bringing my hand tools on the plane their explanation was if they got in a crash all my tools could hurt people and I'm fight how much crazier could I have been with September 11th The point I'm making is I moved here over 20 years ago now and I love lake Michigan they're a couple things I hate about Michigan the snow most of all but once summer comes and you see that lake on thawed and you remember what keeps you here for me I moved here in August so I didn't get much of a summer Winter came and I had decided I was moving out of Michigan when the winter broke that summer this summer 2002 I would beach bum living on lake Michigan for the whole summer me and two other guys I met at a construction company we're all single and no kids and we all literally stayed at each other's houses and lived off of each other's unemployment checks and 30 packs of Busch light in the morning graduating to Kessler in the evening always on the edge of the water barking at the moon Man those times were great I love lake Michigan I could never move someplace unless it doesn't have any body water and I'm just from Podunk Kansas countryside Kansas boy but and never seen the ocean but I tell you what I don't have to see the ocean I got the best body of water and it's salt-free

[kenneth-dknv]

The proper name of the point where Babe Ruth hit his home run is Hanlans Point named after Ned Hanlan not Handlans Point.

[judithwood]

More than five but only five are called great lakes. and many scientists feel that lake superior should be called not Lake superior but superior sea.

[therealmeachy]

So a full gallon knocks it down to 8 trillion years. No prob!

[stronzer]

The GAB in Australia is a far bigger water body, not a fact many people know about

[chrispy]

There’s great bear lake too so doesn’t that make it six?

[gordoncheswick]

More to the ‘greatness of the lakes - they are NOT drying up! The fact is, the last decade or so, the height of the Great Lakes has risen. This was due to a complete freezing of all of the lakes and huge snowfalls in the north filling Lake Superior and thus the remainder of the lakes. They say there are 5 Great Lakes but around here, there are 6 - that being Lake St Clair. Just as important as the rest to join the lakes of the north to the ones in the south and east, and thus the St. Lawrence Seaway ecosystem. So - the whole story of so many people migrating south or south-west is pure ‘bull’. There is no water there now - it’ll get worse with climate change.

[johnkoval]

Dave talks to you like talking to second graders.

[oldschoolgamer]

Could of swore a lake in russia is bigger then the great lakes and the deepest.