Lansing is the only U.S. state capital (among the 47 located in counties) that is not also a county seat.

In 1931, the American robin (Turdus migratorius) was chosen as the official state bird. It had been favored by the Michigan Audubon Society. Sponsors called the robin "the best-known and best-loved of all the birds in the state of Michigan."

The first permanent European settlement was founded in 1668 when Père Jacques Marquette established Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as a base for Catholic missions. It is separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River.

The Flint water crisis began in April 2014, when the city changed its water source from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water (sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River) to the Flint River. Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water. As a result, lead from aging pipes leached into the water supply, exposing over 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels. The water supply change was also connected to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.

Michigan has over 11,000 inland lakes, the largest of which is Houghton Lake in Roscommon county.

The elk and moose are symbols of Michigan, while the bald eagle represents the United States.

The disaster of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping. The sinking led to changes in Great Lakes shipping regulations and practices that included mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels.

A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies.

The Grand River measures 252 miles from its source to its mouth. Native residents referred to it as the O-wash-ta-nong ("far away water") due to its length.

The World's Largest Weather Vane sits on the shores of White Lake in Montague, Michigan. Adorned with a 14-foot replica of a 19th-century Great Lakes schooner, it stands forty-eight-feet tall and weighs thirty-five hundred pounds. Its wind arrow is twenty-six-feet long.