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| 12 different stagecoach lines ran through the state on the National Road, and the first professional baseball game was played here. | |
| Home to the legends of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the US. | |
| The pirate Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach made a home here, and Coca Cola was invented and sold here first. | |
| Built the first rocket to put humans on the moon, and introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world. | |
| Home of the College World Series and the largest railroad yard (Union Pacific). | |
| Chinook salmon is the official state fish, and has the deepest lake in the US. | |
| First colony to declare independence, and the home to the first free public library in the US. | |
| Has the most boat registrations, and home to the Mackinac Bridge - one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. | |
| Home to the first zoological garden (1874), and the only original colony not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. | |
| Site of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and site for the filming of the television series 'Touched by an Angel'. | |
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| Home of the rubber capital of the world, and the pro football hall of fame. | |
| Gatorade was developed here, and home to the location with the highest average temperature in the US. | |
| Location of the crash of the legendary railroad engineer Casey Jones, and bordered by 8 other states. | |
| The state's most abundant mineral is copper, and has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands. | |
| The diner capital of the world and home to the largest seaport in the US. | |
| Considered the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state and has the lowest crime rate in the country. | |
| Home of the only facility to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Basketball's Final 4, and manufacturing location of Tonka Trucks. | |
| Home of the World Championship Duck Calling Contest, and the fiddle is this state's official instrument. | |
| Was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state, and home of the oldest operating tavern in the US. | |
| Home to the highest paved road in North America and the highest auto tunnel in the world. | |
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