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STRANGE, TRUE, AND FUN
FACTS ABOUT THE SWASFAA REGION
- Arkansas
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It is illegal to mispronounce
Arkansas while in the state. It must be pronounced "Arkansaw."
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It is illegal for dogs to
bark after 6:00 p.m. in Fayetteville.
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It is illegal to keep an
alligator in your bathtub in Arkansas.
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The state prohibits moose
from being viewed from airplanes. Furthermore, it is against
the law to push a live moose out of a moving airplane.
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Alma, Arkansas is the Spinach
Capital of the World and commemorated this by painting its
water tower to be the "world's biggest can of spinach."
- Louisiana
- Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United
States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
- Since 1835, the New Orleans & Carrollton Line is the
oldest street railway line still in operation.
- The golden spike, commemorating the completion of the east-west
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad, was driven at Bossier
City on July 12, 1884, by Julia "Pansy" Rule. It was
the first such spike driven by a woman.
- The town of Jean Lafitte was once a hideaway for pirates.
- The Saint Charles streetcar line in New Orleans and the San
Francisco, California cable cars are the nation's only mobile
national monuments.
- New Mexico
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The Rio Grande, New Mexico's longest river,
runs through the entire length of the state.
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Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the
United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
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Blue Hole, an 81-foot deep natural artesian
spring in Santa Rosa, is a favorite location for scuba divers.
It is 4,600 feet above sea level, making the bottom an equivalent
of nearly 100 feet of depth in the ocean.
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White Sands National Monument is a desert,
not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals.
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More than 500, 100-million-year-old dinosaur
footprints have been identified and preserved at Clayton Lake
State Park.
- Oklahoma
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It is illegal to read a comic book while
driving a motor vehicle.
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The world’s first parking meter was
installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935.
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In Bristow, Oklahoma it is against the law
to serve water to a customer in a restaurant unless one peanut
in a shell is also served. The consequences for this “serious”
offence can result in a fine of up to five dollars.
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If you play catch in the streets of Bartlesville,
you’re breaking the law.
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Whaling is illegal in the state of Oklahoma.
- Texas
- There are stalactites and stalagmites in the breezeway at
the University of Texas Law School.
- Of the nation's ten largest cities, three are in Texas (Houston,
Dallas, and San Antonio).
- The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was
"Houston".
- The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the
only hotel in North America built entirely over the water.
- It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts in Mesquite,
Texas.
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