America

There was a time when it was illegal to serve ice cream on top cherry pie in Kansas.

There was a time when California had no rain for 2 years.

There are five US states with no sales tax. (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon).

The world’s wettest place is Mountain Waialeale, located in Hawaii.

The world’s highest roller coaster is found in Ohio.

The world’s first atomic bomb .... was launched in New Mexico in 1945.

The US states with the smallest populations are Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.

The tallest battle monument in the world is located in Houston, Texas.

The oldest public building in the U.S. is located in New Mexico.

The Mall of America is the size of 78 football fields, a total of 9.5 million square feet.

The graham cracker was named after the Presbyterian minister, Reverend Sylvester Graham from Kansas. He was an advocate of eating whole-wheat flour products.

The first US capital was New York City.

The first U.S. Mint was made in Pennsylvania.

The first peanuts ever grown in the US were cultivated in Virginia.

The first ever bone marrow transplant and open-heart surgery in the US were both performed at the University of Minnesota.

The first baseball game played during the evening was in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, New York is the only academic institution in the world that offers a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing.

Texas is the only US state to have had the flags of six other countries fly over it. (France, Spain, Mexico, Confederate States, Republic of Texas, and the US).

Texas has the country’s largest herd of whitetail deer.

Some US cities have the same names as other US States, for example Kansas-Oklahoma, Delaware-Arkansas, Nevada-Missouri, California-Maryland, Michigan-North Dakota, and Louisiana-Missouri, Wyoming-Ohio, Indiana-Pennsylvania, and Oregon-Wisconsin.

Soda Springs in Idaho has the largest man-made geyser in the world.

Six First Ladies were born in Virginia (Martha Washington, Rachel Jackson, Martha Jefferson, Ellen Arthur, Letitia Tyler, and Edith Wilson.)

Post-It notes are exclusively manufactured in Cynthiana, Kentucky.

Orlando attracts more tourists or visitors than any other amusement park in the US.

New York City has a total of 722 miles of subway tracks.

Nevada's official state fossil is the ichthyosaur.The Pair-O-Dice Club was the first ever casino to open on Highway 91 in 1931. It would eventually be known as the Las Vegas Strip.

More than a third of the world's commercial supply of pineapples comes from the state of Hawaii.

More breakfast cereal is produced in Battle Creek, Michigan than any other location in the world.

Montana has three times more cattle than people.

Minnesota has a total of 90,000 miles of shoreline. This is more than Florida, Hawaii, and California combined.

Maine makes more toothpicks than any other US state.

Maine is the only US state with a one-syllable name.

Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.

Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Key West has the highest average temperature in the US.

In size, Rhode Island is the smallest US state.

In Nebraska, you can still find the tracks of wagons from over a century ago.

In Idaho, it is against the law for a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy with a weight of more than 50 lbs.

Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in the US.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

Hawaii (from east to west) is the widest state in the US.

Ghandi's ashes can be found in the Lake Shrine located near L.A.

Everyday, Maine sees the sunrise before the whole US.

Dodge City is the windiest city in the US.

California grows more food than any other US state.

Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1914.

Arizona is America’s leading producer of copper .

Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other 49 US states put together.