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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.
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.
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