You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

The tiny, dainty, red and black ladybug is Delaware’s official state bug.

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Florida’s Brevard County has the area code is 321 in recognition of the countdown to each launch from the Kennedy Space Center.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

Watch out Paris! Aurora, Illinois, is also called the “City of Lights,” though not because of its dazzling scenery and architecture (or involvement in the Age of Enlightenment), but because it was the first U.S. city to use electric street lighting city-wide.

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The first ever traffic light in America was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 5, 1914.

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Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma introduced one of the first shopping carts to the Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma City in 1937, and shopping has been easier ever since.

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Rhode Island is home to America’s oldest carousel, The Flying Horse Carousel. It’s located in Watch Hill.

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This state once accidentally honored the Boston Strangler. On April 1, 1971, Texas state Rep. Tom Moore proposed a bill that would honor the Boston Strangler, a man who allegedly murdered 13 women. He did this to prove that his colleagues did not read the bills that they were voting on. He later retracted the bill after it passed

[Lee Stewart]

While known for their football team, the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, is also known as the “Toilet Paper Capital” of the world because of the large number of toilet paper manufacturers based there.