Fun Fact Friday!!! Please feel free to post some fun or interesting facts on this thread so we can all enjoy them. And Please Hit that share button so your friends can see it to The Oklahoma State Capitol is the only capitol in the world surrounded by working oil wells. Not too many years ago, giant oil rigs dotted the grounds of the Oklahoma capitol. If you play catch in the streets of Bartlesville, you’re breaking the law. Per square mile, Oklahoma has the most tornadoes of all U.S. states. Sylvan N. Goldman of Humpty Dumpty Stores and Standard Food Markets invented the first shopping cart so that people could buy more in a single visit to the grocery store. He unveiled his creation in Oklahoma City on June 4, 1937. If you wear New York Jets in Ada, Oklahoma , you could be jailed. Boise City, Oklahoma was the only city in the United States to be bombed during World War II. On July 5, 1943, at approximately 12:30 a.m., a B-17 Bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base (50 miles to the south of Boise City) dropped six practice bombs on the sleeping town. Whaling is illegal in the state of Oklahoma. In Ponca City a tornado once picked up a house with a man and his wife still in it. Though the walls and roof were blown away, the floor remained intact and eventually glided downward, setting the couple safely back on the ground. In Tulsa you may not open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer. Okmulgee owns the world record for largest pecan pie, pecan cookie, pecan brownie, and biggest ice cream and cookie party. Each June, Okmulgee host the annual Pecan Festival. Oklahoma was the setting for the movie "Twister".
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:22:47 +0000
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