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This state has only one syllable to its name.
What is Maine?
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Crater of Diamonds State Park, where visitors are allowed to prospect for precious gems, is located in this state.
What is Arkansas? Along with diamonds, more than 40 types of rocks and minerals can found here, too, including amethyst, banded agate, jasper, garnet, quartz, calcite, barite, and hematite.
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The only U.S. state whose land area is increasing.
What is Hawaii? Hawaii's land area is increasing due to its continuous volcanic eruptions.
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This large office locale also happens to be the only state capital in the U.S. consisting of three words:
What is Salt Lake City?
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It is the name of the website the founder of the Echo Bay Technology Group registered when he found out that echobay.com was already taken.
What is eBay? Created in 1995, the first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. It went for $14. It is now estimated that for every $100 spent online worldwide, $14 is spent on eBay. That's a lot of broken laser pointers.
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This state hosts no Major League Baseball Team, yet is the home of the maker of 60% of all Major League Baseball bats.
What is Kentucky? Louisville, Kentucky is the home of the Louisville Slugger. Louisville Slugger has sold more than 100,000,000 bats in its 120-year history.
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The “Toilet Paper Capital of the World”, the “Ginseng Capital of the World”, the “Troll Capital of the World”, and the “Jump Rope Capital of the World” can all be found in this state.
What is Wisconsin? Toilet Paper Capital - Green Bay Ginseng Capital - Wausau Troll Capital - Mt. Horeb Jump Rope Capital - Bloomer
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The original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed in this state.
What is Arizona? Based on the 1831 London Bridge that spanned the River Thames until it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge. Completed in 1971 along with a canal, it links an island in Lake Havasu with the main part of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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The soft drink "7UP" was invented in this city:
What is St. Louis? The uncola wasn't known as 7UP for the first few years of its existence. IT was originally christened "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda." Sounds yummy!
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It's the known term for the observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented - and that the trend would likely continue.
What is "Moore's Law"? Made by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this considered the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed.
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It is America's most visited National Park straddling the states of Tennesee and North Carolina.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park? It boasts 9.3 million visitors a year. No. 2, Grand Canyon National Park, has 4.3 million visitors a year.
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It is the state that gave us Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, Green Giant vegetables, Aveda beauty products, and Tonka trucks.
What is Minnesota?
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One out of four workers in this state work directly for the Federal Government.
What is New Mexico? Thanks in large part to the presence of the national laboratories, military bases, and federal agencies with substantial operations here (including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Forest Service).
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In this large office locale you'll also find the operations center for Interstate Bakeries, makers of Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread.
What is Kansas City? Also makers of Ding Dongs, HoHos, Sno Balls, Donettes, Hostess Fruit Pies, and, more recently, Nature’s Pride, a 100-percent all-natural, no preservatives, line of premium and traditional breads. (Promotional consideration has been paid.)
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This device's original model, the 850, was actually little more than a two-way mobile pager when introduced in 1999.
What is the BlackBerry? It did integrate with existing enterprise email, though. Still, 1998 was still in the era of the AOL Internet, so most consumers didn’t really have a need for a mobile email device. But it did provide corporate data access, an organizer, calendar, paging, and wireless Internet, so it was of great use to businesses who wanted a more mobile workforce. Funny bit: The 850 actually ran on two AA batteries. Kind of unfathomable in our wireless era, right?
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Founded by European colonists in 1565, this Florida settlement is now the oldest surviving American city.
What is St. Augustine? Not to be confused with the oldest capital city: Santa Fe, NM is the oldest capital city and at least the third oldest surviving American city, having been founded in 1608.
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The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States in recorded history occurred in 1811 and was centered in this state.
What is Missouri? Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, it shook more than one million square miles and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away. The New Madrid Seismic Zone had four of the largest North American earthquakes in recorded history, with moment magnitudes estimated to be as large as 8.0, all occurring within a three-month period between December 1811 and February 1812.
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"The Skyscraper on the Prairie" can be found (quite easily) in this state.
What is North Dakota? When North Dakota’s original, traditional-styled capitol burned in 1930, it was replaced with a much more modern building. Located in the capital city of Bismarck, the building is 241 feet tall and has 19 stories.
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Washington, DC is the home to over 3,000 cherry trees given as a gift in 1912 to the U.S. by this country.
What is Japan? The famed cherry trees grow in three park locations: around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, in East Potomac Park (Hains Point), and on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The Cherry Blossom Festival is a two-week long celebration.
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Devised and created in the early 1870s, it is the most used modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards.
What is QWERTY? It takes its name from the first six characters seen in the far left of the keyboard's top row of letters. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created to minimize typebar clashes on Remington typewriters. Several alternatives to QWERTY have been developed over the years, claimed by their designers and users to be more efficient, intuitive and ergonomic. Nevertheless, none has seen widespread adoption, due partly to the sheer dominance of available keyboards and training
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The Saturn V rocket, used by the Apollo program manned Moon missions, was developed and built in this state.
What is Alabama? The Saturn V was developed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The three-stage Saturn V was taller than a 36-story building. It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever launched.
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This state boasts the tallest state capital building (measured from bottom to top) in the U.S.
What is Louisiana? Located in Baton Rouge and completed in 1932, the building is 450 feet tall and has 34 stories. FYI: The highest state capital "elevation-wise" is Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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"Sue", the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, was discovered in 1990 in this state.
What is South Dakota? It was discovered in the summer of 1990 by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, and was named after her. The dinosaur specimen is now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
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It is the large office location voted the "Best Place to Reinvent Your Life" (or rather "retire") by AARP The Magazine in 2003 and "Best Place to Live" by Money magazine in 2006.
What is Fort Collins?
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Introduced in 1983, this Apple Computer product was the first personal computer to use a GUI, and introduced the words mouse, icon, and desktop into the lexicon of the computing public.
What is Lisa, or Apple Lisa? The Lisa was introduced in 1983 at a cost of $9,995. CPU speed: 5 Mhz Motherboard RAM: Minimum 512K - Maximum 2MB Hard Drive: 5 MB internal Monitor: 12" built-in with 720 x 360 pixels Only 10,000 were ever sold. Legend has it that all the unsold Lisas were buried in a desert landfill outside Logan, UT.
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