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A Fun Fact for Each State
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ALABAMA | Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968. |
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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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