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Interesting Facts ~ Kansas is the 34th most populous and the 15th most extensive of the 50 states ~ ~The state attained statehood on January 29, 1861, becoming the 34th state to join the union ~ ~ Numerous Native American tribes once called Kansas home ~ ~ State’s name comes from a Siouan-language phrase meaning “people of the south wind” ~ ~ Kansas was once sold to the U.S. as a part of Louisiana in 1803 with the Louisiana purchase ~ ~ The state has two primary nicknames, “the sunflower state” and “the wheat state” ~ ~ Largest producers of wheat in the country ~ Birthplace of the Icee Drink ~ ~ The Hugoton Gas Field is the world’s biggest natural gas field ~ ~ Hutchinson is the home to possibly the longest grain elevators across the globe ~ ~ Goodland has the largest easel in the world, at 40,000 pound, 80 foot steel easel ~ ~ Located in Greensburg, The Big Well is known as the largest hand-dug well in the world ~ ~ Verruckt waterslide at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, is world’s tallest waterslide at 168′ 7″ ~ ~ Cawker City officials have on display the biggest ball of Sisal twine ~ ~ First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson was constructed in 1874 ~ ~ Early in the 1900s, a newly-dug well, began emitting gas, UofK determined to be helium ~ ~ The famous botanical scientist George Washington Carver is from Minneapolis ~ ~ Amelia Earhart was from Atchison and is a renowned pioneer ~ ~ Amelia Earhart was the first woman to be granted a pilot’s license ~ ~ Susan Madora Salter was the first woman mayor in US, she was in Argonia, in 1887 ~ ~ Home of the First Payless Shoe Store in Topeka in 1956 ~ ~ Original Home of Pizza Hut In 1958 in Wichita, two brothers opened the first Pizza Hut ~ ~ In 1921 in Wichita, Walter Anderson opened White Castle hamburger restaurant ~ ~ White Castle is the first national hamburger restaurant chain ~ ~ On Highway 281, a few miles to the northwest of Lebanon, Center of America ~ ~ Kansas is “Flatter Than a Pancake,” legitimate scientific research has proven ~ ~ Mount Sunflower is Kansas’s highest point at 4,039 feet (1,231 meters) ~ ~ Ulysses, Kansas, residents moved the whole town three miles west in 1909 ~ ~~~~~~~~ |
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