Washington Fun Facts and Trivia

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Washington Fun Facts & Trivia

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Mount St. Helen's lost 1,131 feet of elevation in the May 1980 eruption and spewed forth about one cubic mile of dust, ash and debris. The blast leveled over four billion feet of usable timber, enough to build 150,000 homes.

Everett is the site of the world's largest building, Boeing's final assembly plant.

Seattle was the first city in the US to play a Beatles song on the radio.

The highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier. It was named after Peter Rainier, a British soldier who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

It is illegal to display a hypnotized person in a store window in Everett.

Mt. St. Helen's erupting in 1980.

The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.

Seattle built the first revolving restaurant in 1961.

It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.

Washington is home to three National Parks, nine National Forests, and 100 State Parks.

Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union.

On the afternoon of July 4, 1947, Frank Ryman, an off-duty U.S. Coast Guard Yeoman, snaps the first photograph of an alleged flying saucer from the yard of his home in Lake City, north of Seattle.

Washington state has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined.

In Wilbur, it is against the law to ride an ugly horse.

Medina is the home of the United States wealthiest man, Microsoft's Bill Gates.

The Northwestern most point in the contiguous U.S. is Cape Flattery on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

In Washington , lollipops are banned.

Microsoft Corporation is located in Redmond.

Spokane was the smallest city in size to host a World's Fair in 1974

An aerial photograph of the SR 520 Evergreen

Point Bridge taken in 1970. Madison Park is the

neighborhood in the foreground; Kirkland is in the upper

left across Lake Washington . Photo courtesy Washington

State Department of Transportation.

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (SR-520) is the longest floating bridge in the world.

The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge at Evergreen Point is the longest floating bridge in the world. The bridge connects Seattle and Medina across Lake Washington .

In Lynden, Washington dancing and drinking in the same establishment is prohibited.

The oldest operating gas station in the United States is in Zillah.

In Washington it illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich.

The world's first soft-serve ice cream machine was located in an Olympia Dairy Queen.

It is against the law to walk about in public if you have a cold.

Starbucks, the biggest coffee chain in the world was founded in Seattle.

In Bremerton, it is illegal to shuck peanuts on the street.

Seattle sells more sunglasses per capita than any other major city in the nation.

A badly worded law in Washington states that when two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.

Washington is the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix in Seattle and Bing Crosby in Tacoma.

Destroying the beer cask or bottle of someone else is illegal.

Seattle was the first city in the world to pump Muzak into stores and offices.

X-rays can not be used for shoe fittings.

The world's first gas station opened in 1907 at Western Ave. and Holgate St.

Seattle was the first American city to put police on bicycles.

In Seattle, it is against the law to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.

The first general strike in the nation was in Seattle in 1919 - it lasted five days, February 6-11, as 60,000 shipyard workers walked off their jobs.

Northgate shopping mall, built in 1950, became the world's first fully enclosed shopping mall.

In Spokane, it is against the law to buy a television on Sunday.

The Pike Place Market in Seattle is said to host a bevy of ghosts and just might be the most haunted place in the state of Washington .

Harbor Island is the largest man made island in the nation.

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Harbor Island is part of the Port of Seattle, photo courtesy

the Austin Company.

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