A Fun Fact for Each State

An interesting email I received.

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 interesting
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