Big Junkies

• 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 US that doesn’t follow Daylight Savings Time.
• ARKANSAS: Has the only active diamond mine in the US.
• 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 per capita 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=2 0Coca-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: Winnebago RV gets its 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: 20 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
• ldest 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 DC: 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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