Here's a pleasant little message. A Fun Fact about each State - an
e-mail that's actually educational. What a novel concept!
ALABAMA................Was the first state 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 874.3 square miles, Jacksonville is the U.S.
's largest city in the contiguous 48 states.
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 of any other state.
IDAHO...................TV was invented in Rigby , Idaho in 1922.
ILLINOIS.................Has a Governor in jail, one pending jail and
is the most corrupt state in the union!
INDIANA................Home to Santa Claus, Indiana which gets a half
million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA....................Winnebago mobile homes get their name from
Winnebago County and it is the only state name 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, that
if you spent 10 min. 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 .
RHODEISLAND..........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 in 1885. The
hamburger was invented in Arlington in 1906
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.
WASHINGTOND.C......Is 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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