Detroit is home to the Motown sound, founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1957.

Detroit was the first city in the nation to assign individual telephone
numbers in 1879.

Detroit is the potato chip/crisp capital of the world, based on consumption

Detroit has country’s largest island park within a city – Belle Isle Park

Detroit shares the world’s first auto traffic tunnel between two nations –
the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel which links the USA and Canada.

GIRL POWER! Music icon Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in
the suburbs of Detroit.