Haha, the two best-tempered states in the United States.

Haha, two of America’s "best-tempered" states, Minnesota and Wisconsin, have had a fight.
Content: Which state has more lakes?

Wisconsin: "We have 15,000 lakes (specific number: 15074); Minnesota has only 1,1842. "
Minnesota: "In Minnesota, lakes are over 10 hectares. Everything else is called a pond. By this standard, Wisconsin has only 5898. "

Wisconsin: Who set the standard? It’s not written in the dictionary.I don’t care. We have 15,000. "
Minnesota: "Minnesota – Wanhu State (the license plate says it! Figure 4). Wisconsin – Lake 6000 plus some pond states. "

Wisconsin: You see, our ponds have water all year round and have names. It should be called a lake. "
Minnesota: Come on, how many ponds have been converted into lakes to sell houses? Who bought the pond view house? When it comes to the lake view, is it a cow?"

A Wisconsin resident then launched a Facebook campaign to "steal their 11,842 lakes from Minnesota" (Go to Minnesota and steal their 11,842 Lakes, see Fig. 5 and 6). "Everyone take small buckets, no buckets, sponges and straws. Stole the lake and pile Iowa’s corn stalks in it. "
Iowa: Meow???)

More than 10,000 people were interested in the event (almost half of Wisconsin).
Then the Minnesota people launched a Facebook campaign, "Stone the lake and don’t be stolen" (Weigh Down Minnesota’s Lakes with Rocks So People Can’t Steal Them).
People of Wisconsin: "Stone from Minnesota."
People of Minnesota: Assemble all the lakeside cabins into robots to defend Minnesota’s lakes! "
… Endless

Later, the U.S. Geographic Surveying and Mapping Bureau was shocked.
Relevant personnel of the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said that the lake and pond are really difficult to define, and there are unreasonable places according to water volume and area (for example, some lakes are very shallow but very large, some lakes are very small but very deep, and some lakes have large seasonal fluctuations, etc.). We tend not to make an arbitrary delimitation… Generally speaking, it is based on actual needs… Blabla
Indeed, in the Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, ponds and lakes fall under one category.

But in the end, Politifact, a website that has been focusing on political fact checks, has been pulling official data. If the ponds and lakes are counted together, there are 124,662 in Minnesota and 82,009 in Wisconsin…
Okay… Minnesota won.
Vander Zanden, a Wisconsin marsh scientist, insists that there are 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin, but he also admits, "Okay. Minnesota has more lakes. "

So the two states began to happily engage in basic (no) abandonment of the dispute.
Because. After all. Alaska has 3 million lakes…

PS, Figure 7 shows two lakes in Wisconsin-Madison. The campus is near the lake, super beautiful. Figure 8 is Rainy Lake, Minnesota.