Did you know?

[Ken The Kanuck]

I'll admit that these fatcs are not exactly earth shaking, but you never know when need to know.

KTK

DID YOU KNOW.....

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 US '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 gets 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 ... King Williams School opened in 1696. It was the first school in the United States .
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 one of the Crown Jewels of England.
NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in any other state.
NEVADA ... Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.
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.
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 the highest proportion of college graduates of any other US city.
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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[Major Tom]

Well, for Illinois, a person could add: state with one ex-governor in prison and soon, maybe two.

[JB White]

Hopefully someday a Mayor will join them along with a US President.

[Louis of PA]

See how they've been voting in recent elections, Wyoming might wish to consider repealing that one.

[0311Shooter]

Admit it, soon as you started reading the list you skipped to your state. I know that I did.

[JohnMOhio]

Sorry shooter, I didn't do that. I must be be fact thirsty. No, I won't remember them. I just file it away and forget it.

[Dave]

You would have to do allot of fact checking on that list. I have read many times that the Teddy Bear name has nothing to do with Pres. Roosevelt. Can't remember details tho. And I cannot imagine him refusing to shoot a bear!

[jon_norstog]

You would have to do allot of fact checking on that list. I have read many times that the Teddy Bear name has nothing to do with Pres. Roosevelt. Can't remember details tho. And I cannot imagine him refusing to shoot a bear!

Supposedly TR was on a tor of the South. He was in MS, some politicians decided he might like a bear hunt. They had some locals tie a bear cub to a tree, then brought TR out so he could shoot it. He refused, of course. The press picked up the story and then a toy shop in NYC started selling little stuffed bears in honor of the occasion.

TR liked hunting, but he believed in a fair chase.

Here in Idaho we're starting to see "shooter bull" ranches, where you pay money to shoot a bull elk in an enclosed area. Not exactly fair chase and I can't imagine TR going for that kind of action either.

jn

[Bob Womack]

Read 'em all from the top though mine are at the bottom. Missouri's claim may be a bit of a stretch: The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 was where the ice cream cone was introduced, but the Doumar brothers who introduced the cones were from New Jersey and traveled to St. Louis to sell them at a souvenir shop. They later relocated to Virginia Beach, VA and then to Norfolk, VA. Their original machine is still in use at the family's drive-in restaurant . More, HERE.

Bob

[Youngblood]

Interesting list ...

MARYLAND ... King Williams School opened in 1696. It was the first school in the United States .

Well, considering the fact that the Jamestown settlement was established in 1607 that would mean that 89 years elapsed before anyone started a school in any of the English colonies ... which cannot be correct.