We compiled this list of ten crazy facts about Long Island. Click the links in each one to discover more interesting and historical facts about each subject.

• At one time, LI farms provided more than 70% of the country’s ducks
• The second official Rockefeller Christmas Tree in 1934 was from Babylon, a 7-ton, 70-foot tall Norway Spruce
• The original estimates cost of the Shoreham Power Plant was $65 million, it ended up costing $5.5 billion, never produced electricity and the debt is not even paid off yet
• The world’s first video game was invented at Brookhaven National Lab. Before there was Atari or Nintendo, there was Tennis for Two, which may have been the first video game ever created. BNL scientists built the pioneering system to entertain visitors to the Lab in 1958
• It’s said that Plumb Island was where the first cannon fire was exchanged between the Continental Army and the British during the American Revolution and was the first American amphibious assault in history
• In 1905, following doctor’s advice, William Entenmann relocated his bakery from Brooklyn to Bay Shore after his son William Jr. contracted rheumatic fever
• The the original Long Island Rail Road Company was formed on April 24, 1834 and in the mid-1800s the company went bankrupt
• The Fire Island lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse on Long Island (It beats Montauk Lighthouse) and you can see the NYC skyline from the top
• The house that spawned the horror book and film The Amityville Horror was built in 1927 and the original address was 112 Ocean Avenue but has since been changed to 108 Ocean Avenue to thwart lookie-loos