Post on 15-Dec-2015
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The Ten Most Interesting Facts About Missouri That YouNever Knew Before!
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
10. Sliced bread was first offered for sale in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928 when Otto Rohwedder’s bread slicing machine was installed at the Chillicothe Baking Company.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
9. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver gave the State its nickname in 1899 when he said, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.”
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
8. The State was named for the Missouri River, which took its name from the Missouri Indians who lived along its banks. “Missouri” literally means “canoe haver.”
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
7. Nearly all the amoxicillin sold in U.S. pharmacies today is manufactured by an Israeli company at a plant in Mexico, Missouri.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
6. Famous Missourians include: Mark Twain, Harry Truman, George Washington Carver, JC Penney, Walt Disney, Brad Pitt, Daniel Boone, Ginger Rogers, Scott Joplin, Yogi Berra, Satchel Paige, and Rush Limbaugh.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
5. “Homecoming” originated in Missouri in 1911 when the Missouri Tigers hosted the Kansas Jayhawks in football.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
4. The first city in the nation to generate all its power from wind was Rock Port, Missouri, where a wind farm went into operation in 2008.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
3. One of Missouri’s ten largest lakes has a 1150-mile shoreline – longer than the coast of California.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
2. Peculiar, Tightwad, Rat, Ink, Boss, Bland, Leeper, Sleeper, Zif and Zig are real names of real towns in Missouri.
The ten most interesting facts you
never knew about Missouri…
1. The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis is credited with being the origin of the ice cream cone, the hamburger, the hot dog, peanut butter, iced tea, and cotton candy!