[Lady Pamela]

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...and is broke right now like alot of other countries.

COLORADO .... In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the
Olympics.

CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented 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 in area.

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 afterNewton,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.

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 has 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.