Unique Fact | State |
have the sunflower as the official state flower | |
house North America's largest shopping mall | |
have a floating post office that delivers mail to passing ships | |
have a royal palace | |
house a full-scale reproduction of an ancient Greek temple | |
have an active diamond mine open to the public | |
be bombed by a Japanese plane during WWII (not counting territories, like Hawaii or the Philippines) | |
be a former territory of the Russian Empire | |
have a unicameral legislature (i.e. only one house/chamber of government instead of two) | |
have a flag that is not in the traditional, rectangular shape | |
designate the triceratops as the official state dinosaur | |
have a monument erected in honor of an agricultural pest | |
have an official state carnivorous plant | |
turn down hosting the Olympics | |
officially ratify the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) in the 21st Century | |
host the launching of NASA space shuttles | |
be formed by seceding from another state | |
adopt 'Yankee Doodle' as its official song | |
have a state-owned, state-operated bank | |
feature a desert with white sand | |
have parishes instead of counties | |
border exactly one other state | |
have execution by firing squad and electrocution as secondary methods for capital punishment | |
be named after a president | |
fly the flags of six different countries | |
have the official state seal designed by a woman | |
designate an ancient, squid-like cephalopod as its official state fossil | |
host three different presidents as they took their oaths of office | |
use Greek in its official motto | |
have a fully operational rotary jail | |
have a triple divide, where rainfall eventually flows into three different oceans | |
feature a fruit on its state quarter | |
be the official home of Superman | |
have jousting as an official sport | |
house the world's longest known cave system | |
have both its eastern and western borders defined by rivers | |
host the world's oldest annual marathon | |
host the signing of a peace treaty between two foreign powers | |
have the ice cream cone as the official state dessert | |
contain the geographic center of the United States | |
have polka as the official state dance | |
declare itself an independent nation during the Revolutionary War | |
have an official name referencing the union of two locations | |
have an official state hospitality beverage | |
once house the headquarters of the United States Mint | |
have every county classified as a metropolitan area | |
have an official flower that comes from a cactus | |
host part of NATO command | |
name a state highway in honor of visitors from outer space | |
have an official state cooking pot | |
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