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The Ten Most Interesting Facts About Missouri
That You
Never Knew Before!
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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 10. Sliced bread was first offered for sale in
  Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928 when Otto
  Rohwedders bread slicing machine was installed
  at the Chillicothe Baking Company.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 9. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver gave the
  State its nickname in 1899 when he said, I come
  from a state that raises corn and cotton and
  cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence
  neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from
  Missouri. You have got to show me.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 8. The State was named for the Missouri River,
  which took its name from the Missouri Indians who
  lived along its banks. Missouri literally
  means canoe haver.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 7. Nearly all the amoxicillin sold in U.S.
  pharmacies today is manufactured by an Israeli
  company at a plant in Mexico, Missouri.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 6. Famous Missourians include Mark Twain, Harry
  Truman, George Washington Carver, JC Penney, Walt
  Disney, Brad Pitt, Daniel Boone, Ginger Rogers,
  Scott Joplin, Yogi Berra, Satchel Paige, and Rush
  Limbaugh.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 5. Homecoming originated in Missouri in 1911
  when the Missouri Tigers hosted the Kansas
  Jayhawks in football.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 4. The first city in the nation to generate all
  its power from wind was Rock Port, Missouri,
  where a wind farm went into operation in 2008.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 3. One of Missouris ten largest lakes has a
  1150-mile shoreline longer than the coast of
  California.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• 2. Peculiar, Tightwad, Rat, Ink, Boss, Bland,
  Leeper, Sleeper, Zif and Zig are real names of
  real towns in Missouri.

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The ten most interesting facts you never knew
about Missouri

• The 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis is credited
  with being the origin of the ice cream cone, the
  hamburger, the hot dog, peanut butter, iced tea,
  and cotton candy!