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Lubbock, Texas is home of many music artists such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. 15% of the world's cotton is produced within 100 miles of Lubbock. Lubbock's tallest building is slightly twisted because a tornado directly hit it.
OKC gave you the first parking meter..............but we also gave you the shopping cart so you could get your groceries to your car and collect your parking ticket.
There are people in this world who aren't into Kool-aid?
I am a little disturbed.
Don't worry, as long as there's a Baptist potluck going on somewhere, there will always be Kool-aid!
A friend took me out to lunch for my birthday today and the cream they served with my coffee came in a small porcelain container that we both thought looked like the Kool-aid pitcher! So, I may not drink Kool-aid, but the memory lingers on...
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
New Jersey is the richest state in the country as measured by median household income (at least in 2006, it got knocked off by Maryland in 2007)
3 NJ counties are in the Top 10 riches counties in the country (Hunterdon, Somerset and Morris)
New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US.
New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports at Newark Liberty International.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the World.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for Water Quality Control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey is home to the original mystery pork parts chub (no, not spam) Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Home to the less mysterious, but the best, Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions.
The booster club of Grants Pass, Oregon was formerly known as The Cavemen. The high school mascot is the Caveman and the names of many local businesses start with 'Caveman' and there's even a statue of the Caveman outside the GP Chamber, all due to the proximity of the Oregon Caves National Monument.
During the peak of the cold war, the Soviet Union used footage of the booster club members in full Caveman regalia as propaganda against the U.S. claiming that we had stone age standards of living.
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