You Can't Make This Stuff Up! - Page 1326

Lee Stewart · #**13251** 03-28-2020, 04:22 AM

New Mexico has more PhDs per capita than any other state.

Lee Stewart · #**13252** 03-28-2020, 04:23 AM

Until 1941, the so-called West Side Cowboys rode on horseback ahead of freight trains in New York City to warn people to get out of the way.

Lee Stewart · #**13253** 03-28-2020, 04:26 AM

Oregon's flag is the only state flag in the country that has different designs on each side -- the escutcheon from the state seal on one and a gold figure of a beaver on the other.

Lee Stewart · #**13254** 03-28-2020, 04:28 AM

Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion is the most popular residential home visited by tourists, after the White House.

Lee Stewart · #**13255** 03-28-2020, 04:29 AM

Texas uses its own electric grid -- ERCOT -- separate from the two others used by the rest of the U.S.

Lee Stewart · #**13256** 03-28-2020, 04:31 AM

Virginia has had 3 capital cities: Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond. And Richmond was also the capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

Lee Stewart · #**13257** 03-28-2020, 04:32 AM

West Virginia was the first state to have a sales tax. It was 0.4% and went into effect in 1921.

Lee Stewart · #**13258** 03-28-2020, 04:34 AM

The Wyoming territory became first in the nation to grant women over the age of 21 the right to vote in 1869.

**R68GTO** · #**13259** 03-28-2020, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

IMO one of the most beautiful engines the general built. Something about that fuel unit that just does it for me.

**R68GTO** · #**13260** 03-28-2020, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

This one brings back some high school memories. My buddy had one of these in Burgundy/black stripes. Air shocks, slots, and Van Halen in the tape deck. Yep, we were cool as hell in the early 1980's

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