FUN FACTS!

A Fun Fact for Each State

 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 ....  Winnebagos 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 here ...  that'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 building .... 

 the 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.

 I hope you enjoyed this.  I found it kind of cool when I got it in my e-mail from a friend in California! 

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