Our good friend, Ron sent me this list of what the states
were known for. I think I knew about life expenctancy in Hawaii where I was born, raised
and retired to. I'm also not surprised at what Illinois is famous for
since we lived there for 35 years. I would prefer that Illinois be famous
for having the first steel frame skyscraper. It was the Home Insurance
Building (originally 10 stories with a height of 42 m or 138 ft) in
Chicago, Illinois in 1885.
ALABAMA .....Was the first state to have 9-1-1, started
1968.
ALASKA .........One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA...........Is the only state in the continental U.S. That does not
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 largest City in
the U.S.
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.
Hawaii is the most isolated
populated group of islands on earth - 2,390 miles from California and 3,850
miles from Japan.
Hawaii is the only state that grows
coffee.
Hawaii has no billboards, rabies,
snakes or seagulls.
Hawaii has its own time zone. It
does not observe daylight savings time.
The southern most point of the
United States is located in Hawaii - South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii.
About 200 of the 680 types of fish
in Hawaiian waters can be found nowhere else in the world.
The Hawaiian alphabet consists of
only twelve letters. The five vowels are A,E,I,O,U. The seven consonants are
H,K,L,M,N,P,W.
There are no racial or ethnic
majorities in Hawaii. About 30% of Hawaii's residents are Caucasian. Asians
make up about 40%. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders make up about
9% of the population.
The coral reefs in the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands make up about 70 percent of all the reefs in the USA.
Despite what you saw on Hawaii
Five-0, there is no state police force in Hawaii.
Hawaii is the largest consumer of
Spam in the United States.
Hawaii is one of only two states
that has interstate highways without actually bordering on another state.
Hawaii was originally called the
Sandwich Isles. Captain James C. Cook so named the islands in 1778 in honor of
his patron the Earl of Sandwich.
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!
I
want to also add:
* The Chicago Public Library
is the world's largest public library with a collection of more than 2 million
books.
* The ice cream "sundae" was named in
Evanston. The piety of the town resented the dissipating influences of the soda
fountain on Sunday and the good town fathers, yielding to this churchly
influence, passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on
Sunday. Ingenious confectioners and drug store operators obeying the law,
served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda. Objections
then was made to christening a dish after the Sabbath. So the spelling of
"sunday" was changed. It became an established dish and an
established word and finally the "sundae" -- 50 States.com
INDIANA........Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a
half million letters for Santa every year.
IOWA.........Winnebago R.V.s get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is
the only state name that begins with 2 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 is so large that it covers as many square miles as the other
five New England States combined.
MARYLAND............The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.......Bet
you didn't know that!
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 minutes in each store, you'd be there almost 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.......Surprised?
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'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.
WASHINGTON D.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 Sunday. Also, the American Water Spaniel was created
there and is the state dog.
WYOMING.........Was the first state to allow women to vote.
So..... what should your state or country be known for?
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