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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 874.3 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...................Has a Governor in jail. one pending jail & the most corrupt state in the union! $ ell & I live here!)




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 namedafter 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, inventedin 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 interesting!!!








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Pretty interesting. The only problem is that there is one state missing! Nevada isn't on your list and Washington DC is not a state.
 
Pretty interesting. The only problem is that there is one state missing! Nevada isn't on your list and Washington DC is not a state.
I know the person who sent this didnt have them in. But I thought it had something to offer our group.

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Arizona is not the only state to not recognize DST, Hawaii doesn't either.

 
The Krispy Kreme here in Billings closed after only one year in business.
We had a number of them open up and then close up ... the only one left is about 10 miles from me .... but every once in awhile we go get a dozen or so .... I like them. I also liked Dunkin' Donuts and ALL of them are gone -I don't know if there are any left in all of CA or not. Now we just seem to have maverick shops..... and none that are all that and a bag of chips. Well, there is one shop in Escondido that makes the Texas Size donuts .... they are certainly BIG .... but not really that tasty.
And Castle Burgers ..... dang .... I wish we had one of those too.
 
We have Tim Hortons. Kind of a national symbol up here. Next time you head up to BC for your ice wine fix you might want to stop at one. So popular they have thier own lingo. Large double double. Large coffee double cream double sugar. Never seen an empty store. Good thing I don't do coffee.

Hey! That's just like the In & Out Burgers (WHY am I always talking about hamburgers????)

We have the Double-Double ... we order it "animal style" ..... Not what it sounds.... :laugh:
 

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