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  1. 3. In 1887, engineers began to reverse the flow of the Chicago River to stop pollution from contaminating the city’s water supply
  2. 4. The state is known for fishing, mining, and oil, but its latest industry is peonies
  3. 9. The phrase “Don’t mess with Texas” originated in 1985 as the slogan for a campaign meant to combat littering
  4. 10. It boasts the nation’s fastest talkers, according to an analysis of consumer phone calls placed to businesses across the country
  5. 11. Boise celebrates the New Year by dropping a 16-foot-tall steel-and-foam potato in the state capital
  6. 15. Famous for its diamond trade
  7. 16. Although Congress intended the state to be a perfect rectangle, its surveyors wandered a bit off course
  8. 17. Dashing hatmaker John B. Stetson made his western creation at Dunn’s Falls after the Civil War
  9. 21. Catching some z’s must be easier in South Dakota, which one survey found is the least sleep-deprived state in the country
  10. 22. According to New Mexico state law, “idiots” are not allowed to vote
  11. 24. Virginia ranks number one in patriotism among the 50 states, according to one WalletHub survey
  12. 26. On a clear day, seven states are visible from Lookout Mountain
  13. 27. The Great Lake State offers the highest recycling refund in the country
  14. 32. The Biltmore Estate, in Asheville, is the largest privately-owned home in the country, with more than four acres of floor space and 250 rooms (including 35 bedrooms and 43 bathrooms)
  15. 34. There are only two sets of escalators in the entire state
  16. 36. Sixteen of the top 25 windiest U.S. cities are located here
  17. 37. The only state covered entirely by its own time zone
  18. 38. In 2007, North Dakota nabbed the Guinness World Record for Most People Making Snow Angels Simultaneously
  19. 41. Maine is the loneliest number: the single state whose name is just one syllable
  20. 42. Half of the presidents who died in office were from Ohio: William Harrison, James Garfield, William McKinley, and Warren G. Harding
  21. 43. It’s the wealthiest state in the country
  22. 44. It’s the state that was proved to be—quite literally—flatter than a pancake
  23. 45. The first phone book was published in New Haven in February 1878, containing just 50 names
  24. 47. The state that produces enough cotton each year to make two T-shirts for every American
  25. 48. The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry holds the highest concentration of Jurassic-era remains ever found
Down
  1. 1. The world’s largest building by volume—Boeing’s final assembly factory in Everett—spans 98.3 acres and 472 million cubic feet
  2. 2. A last-second home-team touchdown at Louisiana State University in 1988 sent the fans into such a frenzy that the victory registered as an earthquake on a local seismograph
  3. 5. From 1951 to 1992, a swath of land about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas was used for hundreds of nuclear weapons tests
  4. 6. The Angel Oak Tree, located near Charleston, is estimated to be one of the oldest living things in the country. It produces a shadow that covers about 17,000 square feet
  5. 7. If it were a country, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world
  6. 8. About 80 percent of the world’s sandhill crane population alights on Nebraska’s Platte River during the cranes’ annual spring migration
  7. 12. When the state dance is the polka, it’s awfully convenient that A World of Accordions, a museum with more than 1,000 types of squeeze-boxes, is also found in the state
  8. 13. The world’s largest painted ball resides in Alexandria
  9. 14. The remains of an 8,000-year-old human civilization were found buried in a peat bog here
  10. 18. This state’s name is spelled Pensylvania on the Liberty Bell. The Constitution uses one n in one section and two n’s in another
  11. 19. In 1776, a group of residents asked the Continental Congress to create a 14th colony called Westylvania
  12. 20. When it comes to the Garden State, remember two things: horses and divorces
  13. 23. This Land of 10,000 Lakes technically has more than 11,000
  14. 25. The state with the most generous laws regarding company ownership
  15. 28. Just outside Atlanta, the picturesque community of Serenbe requires each of its 200-plus homes to include a porch
  16. 29. The temperature in Loma once climbed from -54 degrees F to 49 degrees within 24 hours
  17. 30. It appears to serve up the only official state meal: a heaping plateful of fried okra, squash, cornbread, barbecue pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken-fried steak, pecan pie, and black-eyed peas
  18. 31. Underground vaults at Fort Knox hold one of the largest stockpiles of gold in the country
  19. 33. The only state whose official drink is an alcoholic beverage
  20. 35. The smallest state in the country shares a state water border with New York
  21. 38. Twice a year, the setting sun aligns perfectly with the Manhattan street grid, illuminating the borough’s east-west streets with an orange glow
  22. 39. This state’s license plates—bearing the slogan “Live Free or Die”—are made by prison inmates
  23. 40. Don’t visit the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line unless you’re prepped for travel
  24. 41. Thanks to St. Louis and snacks popularized at the 1904 World’s Fair, Americans can now throw back giant quantities of Dr. Pepper, cotton candy, iced tea, waffle cones, and frankfurters
  25. 46. At 8 p.m. on March 31, 1880, Wabash became the first city in the world to be lit by electricity