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  • cowboy
    Homer Weems
    • Dec 2008
    • 5740

    #1

    Cool but obscure facts about your state

    I'll start first.

    Wyoming is the birthplace of the modern jump shot. You can thank us later.

    William Deming, the father of just in time inventory and the single greatest contributor to Japan's post-war industrial success, grew up just down the road in Powell, Wyoming. I would give him more praise, but he was a chicken farmer.

    Wyoming has fewer people than any other state, and has the second lowest population density. We have more cows than people, and that's counting the UW cheerleaders on the people side.

    The Wyoming legislature is currently considering a bill that would allow concealed carry without a permit.

    Finally, one for you attorneys. One of the country's most well-known ambulance chasers, the venerable Gerry Spence, graduated from the state's fine university.
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  • DU Ute
    RIP CUF
    • Dec 2008
    • 7393

    #2
    Colorado is the birthplace of ROCKTOBER.
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    • Indy Coug
      Heartless Bastard
      • Dec 2008
      • 18747

      #3
      In Pennsylvania, it is illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors.
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      • Jacob
        Junior Member
        • Oct 2009
        • 6801

        #4
        Maybe not cool, but we had a Chinese massacre in my hometown:

        The Rock Springs massacre (also known as the Rock Springs Riot) occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming, in Sweetwater County. The riot, between Chinese immigrant miners and white immigrant miners, was the result of racial tensions and an ongoing labor dispute over the Union Pacific Coal Department's policy of paying Chinese miners lower wages than white miners. This policy caused the Chinese to be hired over the white miners, which further angered the white miners and contributed to the riot. Racial tensions were an even bigger factor in the massacre. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 75 Chinese homes resulting in approximately US$150,000 in property damage[1][2][3] ($3.55 million in present-day terms[4]).

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        • il Padrino Ute
          Junior Member
          • Nov 2008
          • 19161

          #5
          Originally posted by cowboy View Post
          I'll start first.

          Wyoming is the birthplace of the modern jump shot. You can thank us later.

          William Deming, the father of just in time inventory and the single greatest contributor to Japan's post-war industrial success, grew up just down the road in Powell, Wyoming. I would give him more praise, but he was a chicken farmer.

          Wyoming has fewer people than any other state, and has the second lowest population density. We have more cows than people, and that's counting the UW cheerleaders on the people side.

          The Wyoming legislature is currently considering a bill that would allow concealed carry without a permit.

          Finally, one for you attorneys. One of the country's most well-known ambulance chasers, the venerable Gerry Spence, graduated from the state's fine university.
          How could you leave the fact that the first JC Penney opened it's doors in Kemmerererererer?
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          • LiveCoug
            LA Ute loves me
            • Nov 2008
            • 18486

            #6
            Originally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post
            How could you leave the fact that the first JC Penney opened it's doors in Kemmerererererer?
            I didn't know that. I just looked up JC Penney and also didn't realize that it was headquartered in SLC until 1914.

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            • cowboy
              Homer Weems
              • Dec 2008
              • 5740

              #7
              Originally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post
              How could you leave the fact that the first JC Penney opened it's doors in Kemmerererererer?
              If I mentioned everything that was cool about Wyoming, everyone would want to move here and turn it into the same crappy place they came from.
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              • LiveCoug
                LA Ute loves me
                • Nov 2008
                • 18486

                #8
                The first electric traffic light was invented and implemented in SLC.

                KFC's first store is in SLC

                TV was invented by a Utahn

                Frank Zamboni (I'll let you figure out what he created) is a Utahn

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                • il Padrino Ute
                  Junior Member
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 19161

                  #9
                  Originally posted by cowboy View Post
                  If I mentioned everything that was cool about Wyoming, everyone would want to move here and turn it into the same crappy place they came from.
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                  • il Padrino Ute
                    Junior Member
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 19161

                    #10
                    Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
                    I didn't know that. I just looked up JC Penney and also didn't realize that it was headquartered in SLC until 1914.
                    Yep. It was in SLC because of access to the transcontinental railroad.

                    BTW, I'm pretty sure that Philo Farnsworth was from Idaho.
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                    • TripletDaddy
                      sweet triple
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 58186

                      #11
                      Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post
                      TV was invented by a Utahn
                      And he went to BYU. Go Philo!
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                      • TripletDaddy
                        sweet triple
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 58186

                        #12
                        Originally posted by il Padrino Ute View Post
                        Yep. It was in SLC because of access to the transcontinental railroad.

                        BTW, I'm pretty sure that Philo Farnsworth was from Idaho.
                        I think he was born in Utah and moved to Idaho later. returned to Utah and lived most of his life there.
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                        • LiveCoug
                          LA Ute loves me
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 18486

                          #13
                          Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
                          I think he was born in Utah and moved to Idaho later. returned to Utah and lived most of his life there.
                          This is correct. Don't take our guy, Idaho!

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                          • Moliere
                            One man.....one pie
                            • Oct 2009
                            • 27820

                            #14
                            Texas is the only state that was once a country.

                            Also, Texas was invented in Texas.
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                            • SloanHater
                              Banned
                              • Feb 2009
                              • 1348

                              #15
                              Michigan looks like a hand.

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