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Four historical trails crossed
Nebraska
including the
Oregon,
Lewis and
Clark, Mormon, and
Pony Express.
Grant County allegedly has more millionaires proportionally to its
population than any other in the nation.
The Ole’s bar/restaurant in Paxton boasts a 1,300 pound polar bear?
Fred Astaire was born Fred Austerlitz’s in Omaha.
Nebraska
is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich.
Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont.
Mutual of Omaha
Corporate headquarters is a public building built with 7 floors
underground.
Nebraska's
state nickname used to be the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed
in1945 to the "Cornhusker State."
It is illegal in
Nebraska
for a mother to give her daughter a perm without a state license.
The Naval Ammunition
Depot located in Hastings was the largest U.S. ammunition plant
providing 40% of WWII's ammunition.
Wayne
Nebraska
is well known for the biggest and best
chicken show in the world.
South Bend,
Nebraska
serves more testicles than any where in the world at its 'Testicle
Festival'.
In
Nebraska
in 1986 for the first time ever two women ran against each other for
governorship of a state.
Sidney,
Nebraska
was the starting point of the Black Hills Gold Rush.
Dr. Harold Edgerton of Aurora,
Nebraska
is the inventor of the strobe light.
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