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.