Facts about your state or where you come from

That was a great deployment...

 

Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.

 

The last battle of the Civil War was fought on May 12-13, 1865 at Palmito ranch, Texas. It was a Confederate victory.

 

Iolani Palace is the only royal palace in the United States.

 

Texas has 305,951 miles of paved roads. (most of ANY state)

 

South point on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States, with AWESOME cliff fishing. Since the waters off the cliffs are deep drop off you can catch open ocean fish right from shore!

 

H-3 is one of the most expensive Interstate Highways ever built, on a cost per mile basis. Its final cost was $1.3 billion, or approximately $80 million per mile



Goes through the beautiful Koolau mountain range, its a very beautiful and scenic drive that goes through 2 tunnels,anyone who visits should drive on it and experience old Hawaii, the untouched part of it since it goes through miles of untouched Hawaiian soil

 

Texas has 6,736 lakes, and only 1 of them is natural.

 

The Roscoe Wind Farm is the world's largest wind farm, with 627 wind turbines.

 

President Barrack Obama was the first black president and was born in Hawaii

 

I thought facts could be proven.

 

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Nebraska

Home to the CORNHUSKERS!

Home of the cow 2 legged and 4 legged

Nebraska became one of the first states to provide the entire state with educational television in 1963.

The Lied Jungle located in Omaha is the world's largest indoor rain forest.

In 1927, Edwin E. Perkins of Hastings invented the powdered soft drink Kool-Aid.

There are five army forts open to the public in Nebraska: Atkinson, Kearny, Hartsuff, Sidney, and Robinson.

The Ogallala aquifer, which stretches as far south as Texas, is Nebraska's primary source of irrigation water.
Nebraska's Ogallala aquifer is the world's largest underground water supply. It's estimated to contain about 800 million gallons of water

40% of the munitions used in WWII had to be manufactured at the Naval Ammunition Depot in Hastings, Nebraska, since the rest of the state was rooting for Hitler. (I didn't know about this one)

 

only think i can think of right now is.

home of the best whiskey IMO.. i know that jack started working for the company at the young age of 7. (i think it may have had a different name) he bought the company at the age of 14. and the county jack lived in is a dry county.

i think me have 94 or 97 counties in the sate.

and we are not all stuck up hillbilly redneck that are the most near ow minded people in the would. but we do have some that are like that.

we have ALLOT of meth labs. the county i live in as of 2010 was like number 5. and the county north of me was #3 that same county was in the top 10 in the country.

 

California hosts the largest Armenian-American population in the states...Glendale CA to be exact (Los Angeles County)

 

The University of Hawaii @ Manoa will be the first university to put a satellite into space.




And I go here.

 

and you guy DO get snow. lol. i saw that on tv.

 

On the Big island, we do...
In one day, I played in the snow in the morning, went to a beach, cruised through a wetland, then went home through a tropical forest

 

yeah. i did not know what island. and there is like the think that are like big as a football filed and look at starts and other universes. lol yes i’m stupid when it comes to that stuff.