ALABAMA is the first state to have the emergency call number "911" which was first used in 1968.
ALASKA has the highest ratio of pilots in the U.S.A.; one out of every 64 people in Alaska is a licensed pilot.
ARIZONA is the only state which does not follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.A.
CALIFORNIA's economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the world.
COLORADO is the only state to refuse to host the Olympics; it turned down hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics.
CONNECTICUT is where the frisbee was invented at Yale University.
DELAWARE has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA has the largest U.S. city in total land area---Jacksonville at 874.3 square miles.
GEORGIA is where the first vat of Coca-Cola was made in 1886 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist.
HAWAII residents live five years longer on the average than residents of any other state.
IDAHO is where television was invented in Rigby, Idaho in 1922.
ILLINOIS is the most corrupt state in the Union and the only state which has a governor in jail.
INDIANA is home to Santa Claus, Indiana, and gets about half a million "letters to Santa" every year.
IOWA is the only state whose name begins with two vowels, and Winnebago, the recreational vehicle [RV], got its name from Iowa's Winnebago County.
KANSAS has a replica of the house in the movie The Wizard of Oz in Liberal, Kansas.
KENTUCKY has more than $6 billion in gold in Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA has parishes [church units] instead of counties.
MAINE covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND is where the ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS is where the Fig Newton got its name after Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN is where the baby food capital of the world is located; Gerber, the world's largest baby food maker, is in Fremont, Michigan.’
MINNESOTA's Mall of America in Bloomington is the largest shopping mall in the U.S.A. and the 3rd largest in the world that if one were to spend a minimum of 10 minutes in each and every store in mall, it would take nearly four days to cover the entire mall.
MISSISSIPPI is where the teddy bear got its name from President Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a bear while hunting in Mississippi.
MISSOURI Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA is where the sapphire in the Crown Jewels of England came from.
NEBRASKA has more triplets than any other state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE is the birthplace of Tupperware; it was invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper/
NEW JERSEY has the most shopping malls in any one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO is where Smokey, the Bear was rescued from a forest fire in 1950.
NEW YORK has the nation's oldest cattle ranch; it was started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA is home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA's town of Rigby, North Dakota is the exact geographic center of North America.
OHIO is where the hot dog was invented in 1900.
OKLAHOMA's state capital grounds are covered with operating oil wells.
OREGON has the most ghost towns in the U.S.A.
PENNSYLVANIA is where the computer icon "smiley" [ : ) ] was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND has the nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, which opened in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA's Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA is the only state which has never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE's Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS is where Dr. Pepper was invented in 1885 in Waco, and also the hamburger which was invented in 1906 in Arlington, Texas.
UTAH is where the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened in 1952.
VERMONT's capital, Montpelier, is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA is the home of the world's largest office building, The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON's Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C. is the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA has the world's first brick-paved street, Summers Street in Charleston which was paved with bricks in 1870.
WISCONSIN is where the ice cream sundae was invented in 1881 to circumvent the Blue Sunday Law prohibiting the sale of ice cream on Sundays.
WYOMING is the first state to allow women to vote.
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ALASKA has the highest ratio of pilots in the U.S.A.; one out of every 64 people in Alaska is a licensed pilot.
ARIZONA is the only state which does not follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.A.
CALIFORNIA's economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the world.
COLORADO is the only state to refuse to host the Olympics; it turned down hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics.
CONNECTICUT is where the frisbee was invented at Yale University.
DELAWARE has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA has the largest U.S. city in total land area---Jacksonville at 874.3 square miles.
GEORGIA is where the first vat of Coca-Cola was made in 1886 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist.
HAWAII residents live five years longer on the average than residents of any other state.
IDAHO is where television was invented in Rigby, Idaho in 1922.
ILLINOIS is the most corrupt state in the Union and the only state which has a governor in jail.
INDIANA is home to Santa Claus, Indiana, and gets about half a million "letters to Santa" every year.
IOWA is the only state whose name begins with two vowels, and Winnebago, the recreational vehicle [RV], got its name from Iowa's Winnebago County.
KANSAS has a replica of the house in the movie The Wizard of Oz in Liberal, Kansas.
KENTUCKY has more than $6 billion in gold in Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA has parishes [church units] instead of counties.
MAINE covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND is where the ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
MASSACHUSETTS is where the Fig Newton got its name after Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN is where the baby food capital of the world is located; Gerber, the world's largest baby food maker, is in Fremont, Michigan.’
MINNESOTA's Mall of America in Bloomington is the largest shopping mall in the U.S.A. and the 3rd largest in the world that if one were to spend a minimum of 10 minutes in each and every store in mall, it would take nearly four days to cover the entire mall.
MISSISSIPPI is where the teddy bear got its name from President Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a bear while hunting in Mississippi.
MISSOURI Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA is where the sapphire in the Crown Jewels of England came from.
NEBRASKA has more triplets than any other state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE is the birthplace of Tupperware; it was invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper/
NEW JERSEY has the most shopping malls in any one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO is where Smokey, the Bear was rescued from a forest fire in 1950.
NEW YORK has the nation's oldest cattle ranch; it was started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH CAROLINA is home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA's town of Rigby, North Dakota is the exact geographic center of North America.
OHIO is where the hot dog was invented in 1900.
OKLAHOMA's state capital grounds are covered with operating oil wells.
OREGON has the most ghost towns in the U.S.A.
PENNSYLVANIA is where the computer icon "smiley" [ : ) ] was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
RHODE ISLAND has the nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, which opened in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA's Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA is the only state which has never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE's Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS is where Dr. Pepper was invented in 1885 in Waco, and also the hamburger which was invented in 1906 in Arlington, Texas.
UTAH is where the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened in 1952.
VERMONT's capital, Montpelier, is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA is the home of the world's largest office building, The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON's Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C. is the first planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA has the world's first brick-paved street, Summers Street in Charleston which was paved with bricks in 1870.
WISCONSIN is where the ice cream sundae was invented in 1881 to circumvent the Blue Sunday Law prohibiting the sale of ice cream on Sundays.
WYOMING is the first state to allow women to vote.
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