ALABAMA
Also known as "The Racist Hick State."
From the Native American word Alibamu, meaning "thicket clearers."
ALASKA
Alaska became the 49th of the United States on Jan. 3, 1959.
Alaska is the only one of the 50 United States whose name can be spelled using letters from only one line of the standard QWERTY keyboard.
The state of Rhode Island could fit into Alaska 425 times.
ARIZONA
Home of the largest copper mine in the United States.
Home of the world's largest rosebush.
From the Tohono O'odham word Arizonac (little spring).
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
ARKANSAS
Fourteen meteorites have been discovered in Arkansas.
Arkansas had the first diamond mine in the United States.
From the Quapaw word meaning "south wind."
CALIFORNIA
State Motto: Eureka
The most populous state.
California's state insect: Dog Face Butterfly.
COLORADO
Home of the world's highest suspension bridge.
Leadville, Colorado is the highest city in the United States--10,152 ft. above sea level.
Home of the cheeseburger.
Colorado is the only U.S. state to ever turn down the opportunity to host the Winter Olympics.
CONNECTICUT
Home of cattle branding.
Connecticut: home to the first telephone book (1878), hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948).
Connecticut was the first state to pass an automobile law: a speed limit of 12 MPH (1901)
DELAWARE
The first state to ratify the U.S. constitution.
Delaware is the only state without any National Park System units.
The second smallest state--1,982 square miles.
Delaware's official state colors are Colonial blue and buff.
FLORIDA
Ah, Florida, bastion of electoral injustice.
Home of the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival (in Niceville).
Home of the first rollerbladers' ATM.
GEORGIA
Georgia was named for King George II of England.
The Vidalia onion can only be grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville, Georgia.
Birthplace of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII
Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth.
Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee.
More than one-third of the world's commercial supply of pineapples comes from Hawaii.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W.
From east to west Hawaii is the widest state in the United States.
Hawaii was the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20th, 1959.
Hawaii has its own time zone (Hawaiian Standard Time).
IDAHO
In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Home of the world's largest man-made geyser.
ILLINOIS
Illinois has more personalized license plates than any other state.
Home of the world's largest public library.
INDIANA
There are fewer than 8,000 Native Americans living in the "Land of the Indians" today.
IOWA
Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.
KANSAS
Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest city in the United States.
KENTUCKY
Post-It Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Birthplace of the enamel bathtub.
LOUISIANA
Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties.
In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
MAINE
The only monosyllabic state in the U.S.
90 of the U.S. toothpick supply is produced in Maine.
Maine is the only U.S. state that borders only one other state.
MARYLAND
Maryland is named for the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," written by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830.
MASSACHUSETTS
The Fig Newton was named after Newton, Massachusetts.
Home of the birth control pill.
MICHIGAN
Although Michigan is often called the "Wolverine State" there are no longer any wolverines in Michigan.
Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world.
MINNESOTA
Minnesota is the home of masking and Scotch tape, the stapler, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables.
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi is the birthplace of root beer and Pine Sol.
MISSOURI
Missouri means "town of the large canoes."
Birthplace of iced tea and the ice cream cone.
MONTANA
Montana has 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, 3.3 deer and 6 humans per average square mile.
N CAROLINA
Official state beverage: milk.
Birthplace of Pepsi and Krispy Kreme.
N DAKOTA
Official state beverage: milk.
The most boring state of all.
NEBRASKA
Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert."
The letters of "Nebraska" can be rearranged to spell "bra snake."
NEVADA
Nevada means "snow-clad."
The Liberace museum is in Nevada.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire is a relatively uninteresting state.
NEW JERSEY
New Jersey... car theft capital of the world.
New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps.
Diner capital of the world.
NEW MEXICO
Are they still testing atomic bombs there?
New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than humans. It is true.
NEW YORK
Never heard of it.
NORTH CAROLINA
Official state beverage: milk.
Birthplace of Pepsi and Krispy Kreme.
NORTH DAKOTA
Official state beverage: milk.
The most boring state of all.
OHIO
Ohio became the seventeenth state to enter the Union on March 1, 1803.
The world's first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865.
Akron, Ohio is the rubber capital of the world.
Ohio has an area of 116,103 square miles. It is the thirty-fourth largest states in the United States.
Cleveland, Ohio was the world's first electrically lighted city.
Ah, yes. The buckeye state.
OKLAHOMA
Birthplace of the parking meter, shopping cart and electric guitar.
OREGON
Eugene, Oregon was the first city to have one-way streets.
That is where we live.
PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania is a very beautiful state.
RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island is almost as big as my penis.
S CAROLINA
South Carolina's official state dance: the shag.
South Carolina is the second least interesting state.
S DAKOTA
South Dakota is very beautiful.
SOUTH CAROLINA
South Carolina's official state dance: the shag.
South Carolina is the second least interesting state.
SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota is very beautiful.
TENNESSEE
Home of fundamentalist Christian bigotry.
That's where country music and the KKK were born and Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Boo for Tennessee.
TEXAS
Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. Unfortunately it didn't stay that way.
Also known as "The Ugliest State."
That's where the antichrist (George W. Bush) comes from.
UTAH
Headquarters of the world's largest cult: Mormonism.
Utah has the highest literacy rate of all the United States.
VERMONT
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
Vermont is the state with the highest ratio of number of cows to number of humans.
VIRGINIA
Virginia is the internet capital of the world.
You mean V-A-G-I-N-A, silly.
WASHINGTON
Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the U.S.
Birthplace of Jimi Hendrix and Starbucks.
WEST VIRGINIA
Gaia bless West Virginia for giving us Don Knotts and Golden Delicious Apples.
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin produces more milk than any other state.
WYOMING
Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.
Wyoming has the lowest population of all 50 United States.