A Fun Fact for Each State

Published: May 20, 2011, 1:01 pm

Updated: May 20, 2011, 1:05 pm

ALABAMA	Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.
ALASKA	One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA	Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS	Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA	Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO	In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT	The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University .
DELAWARE	Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA	At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the U.S. 's largest city.
GEORGIA	It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII	Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.
IDAHO	TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS	The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
INDIANA	Home to Santa Claus, Indiana , which get a half million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA	Winnebago get their name from Winnebago County . Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS	Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.
KENTUCKY	Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox .
LOUISIANA	Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
MAINE	It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND	The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS	The Fig Newton is named after Newton , Massachusetts .
MICHIGAN	Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
MINNESOTA	Bloomington’s Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI	President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear herethat's how the teddy bear got its name.
MISSOURI	Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA	A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England .
NEBRASKA	More triplets are born here than in any other state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE	Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY	Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO	Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
NEW YORK	Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA	Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA	Rigby , North Dakota , is the exact geographic center of North America .
OHIO	The hot dog was invented here in 1900. OH !!!!
OKLAHOMA	The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
OREGON	Has the most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA	The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND	The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA	Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA	Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE	Nashville 's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS	Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
UTAH	The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
VERMONT	Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA	Home of the world's largest office buildingThe Pentagon.
WASHINGTON	Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C	Was the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA	Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
WISCONSIN	The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
WYOMING	Was the first state to allow women to vote.

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Comments

TigerAngel - May 20, 2011, 3:07 pm

Nice, but I wonder if there is any gold left in Fort Knox? If so, is it real or fake?

sully16 - May 20, 2011, 11:06 pm

Thanks , nice read.

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