#2 Niagara Falls stopped a war
You wouldn’t think that something like a waterfall would have prevented the start of a war, but this is exactly what happened back in the 1910s. The rifts between the United States and Mexico got pretty tense due to border security and the Mexican Revolution, and after the American military took over the city of Velacruz, the two parties agreed to meet for a peace conference.
They agreed to hold it at the Niagara Falls because they thought that the natural beauty and serene view of the waterfall would quench the tension and help the ones discussing it put down their differences. Whether it was because of the waterfall or not, they did reach a peace agreement then! The sad part is that just as Mexico and the United States were wrapping up the peace conference, on the other side of the ocean, the First World War was just starting.
