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Strezz's blog: "Did you know"

created on 12/12/2006  |  http://fubar.com/did-you-know/b33893

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 w ere 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.

 

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...................Has a Governor in jail. one pending jail & 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 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 after Newton, Massachusetts.

 

MICHIGAN ................ Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.

 

MINNESOTA ............Bloomingtons 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'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. The Hamburger was invented in Arlington, Texas 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. .... 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.

Lawers and cigars

LAWYERS AND CIGARS...
 
 
This took place in Charlotte , North Carolina.
 
A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed  a claim against the insurance company.
 
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost 'in a series of small fires.'
 
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
 
The lawyer sued - and WON!
                
(Stay  with  me, now)
 
Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable 'fire' and was obligated to pay the claim.
 
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars that perished in the 'fires'.
 
NOW  FOR THE BEST   PART...
 
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!!   With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
 
This true story won First Place in last year's Criminal Lawyers Award contest.
 
ONLY IN AMERICA
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM > > machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. > For > > example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. > > > > The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card > you > > placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you > requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately > dispatched to help you. > > > > This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it > is seldom used because people don't know it exists. > > > > Please pass this along to everyone
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