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Google's year-end review of Maine put a spotlight on the odd and peculiar things people are searching for in Portland, Bangor, and Presque Isle.

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Okay...this is just weird.

Years ago if we needed to find something, we were directed to the encyclopedia or the dictionary. Now, we 'google' it and our answers are revealed in moments.

In preparation for the upcoming Scripps Spelling Bee, Google Trends released a map detailing every state's most misspelled word. Here in Maine, given the lengthy winter and a particularly brutal flu season, it's hardly a surprise that that pneumonia tops the list...

We search for a lot of weird stuff here in Maine, but we now have official data on the most unique stuff we seem to be obsessed with.

The website Estately.com published a blog recently that looks at what how-to questions each state google searches more frequently than any other state. Before I saw the answer for Maine, I was thinking it would maybe be something about lobsters, skiing, ice fishing, but nope, the how-to question we Google search more often than all of the other states is....

Estately.com has researched which 'D-List' celebrities that each U.S. state google more often than any other state. First of all, who would have thought that this study needed to be done, and secondly, why is it so fun to read?

Almost 91,000 people monthly ask Google this? I'm pretty sure you should see a doctor for this question...