*Wyoming has the lowest population of all 50 United States.
*The 911 system of emergency communications, now used nationwide, was developed and first used in Lincoln, Nebraska.
*Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth. Hawaii is 2,390 miles from California; 3,850 miles from Japan; 4,900 miles from China; and 5,280 miles from the Philippines.
*The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.
*In 1990 Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 33 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves.
*Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where the drink was first developed.
*Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state in the United States.
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