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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.
Handel's Messiah has been
presented in Lindsborg each at Easter since 1889.
Kansas
law requires that if two trains meet on the same track in
Kansas,
neither shall proceed until the other has passed.
The rocks at Rock City
are huge sandstone concretions, which are hard, compact accumulations of
mineral matter, usually spherical or disk-shaped and embedded in a host
rock of a different composition. In an area about the size of two football
fields, 200 rocks, some as large as houses, dot the landscape. There is no
other place in the world where there are so many concretions of such giant
size.
Cawker City,
Kansas
lays claims to the world’s largest ball of twine with a 38 foot
circumference, weighing almost 17,000 pounds, and still growing.
In Hutchison stands a ½ mile long
elevator that contains 1,000 bins and holds 46 million bushels.
In Derby,
Kansas,
if you hit a vending machine after it stole your money, you are breaking
the law.
South of Ashland the Rock Island
Bridge spanning the Cimarron River is the longest railroad bridge of its
kind, at 1,200 feet in length and 100 feet above the river bed.
The Arkansas River may be the only
river whose pronunciation changes as it crosses state lines. In
Kansas,
it is called the Arkansas (ahr-KAN-zuhs). On both sides of
Kansas
(Colorado
and
Oklahoma ),
it is called the Arkansaw.
A hailstone weighing more
than one and a half pounds once fell on Coffeyville.
In
Lawrence
it is illegal to wear a bee in your hat.
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, a notorious
outlaw in the 1930’s and a member of the Barker gang, was raised in
Kansas.
Fort Riley
has the distinction of being the location of the only exorcism in U.S.
history to be paid for by the military.
The
Oregon Trail
passed thru six states, including
Kansas.
All cars entering the
Lawrence
city limits must first sound their horn to warn the horses of their
arrival.
Topeka,
Kansas was
the scene of many a gun battle, but the most bizarre incident occurred in
the Kansas
House of Representatives where Boston Corbett, the reported killer of John
Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, ran amuck. Corbett threatened to
kill several state congressmen for stalling legislation; he finally
surrendered his weapon without shooting anyone and was sent to an insane
asylum.
The world famous
fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in
Wichita.
Kansas in
one of the two sources of helium in the U.S.
There were no
Indian
attacks reported on the
Oregon Trail
as the travelers passed through the state.
Catching fish with your
bare hands in
Kansas is illegal.
By 1880, approximately
40,000 black people had left the South for new lives in
Kansas, a
wave of emigration known as "the Exodus." The “Exodusters” built numerous
all African-American towns during this time, only one of which remains
today. Nicodemus,
Kansas, now a virtual
ghost town, has gained recognition as a National Historic Site
The world's largest hand
dug well is in Greensburg,
Kansas.
Silent comedian Buster Keaton, of
early film success, was from Piqua,
Kansas.
In Overland Park, it is
against the law to picket a funeral.
Kansas was
the first state to ratify the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
which gave African-American men the right to vote.
The hide and head of the first MGM Lion, Leo,
is at the McPherson Museum.
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