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HAPPY IOWA HISTORY MONTH! 10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT IOWA
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March is officially designated Iowa History Month, and since we love any excuse to talk about our beautiful state, we’ve decided to celebrate with 10 fun facts only an Iowa native would know! Try your hand at checking off the tidbits on the list below. If you already knew more than five of them, you’re either an actual Iowan or a true Iowan at heart. • Iowa is nicknamed the Hawkeye State after the character Hawkeye in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel, “The Last of the Mohicans.” • Snake Alley, a road in Burlington, Iowa, was named the oddest spot in the U.S. by “Ripley’s Guide to the Curious Corners of America.” The street is incredibly crooked, packing five half-curves and two quarter- curves into just 275 feet. • Remember that one time when Ozzy Osbourne bit into a live bat someone had thrown on stage at a Black Sabbath concert? Well, that happened in Des Moines, Iowa. • In the 1830s, Iowa almost went to war with Missouri over the surveying of state lines. Mental Floss reports that no shots were fired, but a stand of trees was destroyed during the conflict. • There are more pigs than people in Iowa! The latest numbers put our hog population at over 23 million, and our human population at just under 3.2 million. • The first-ever Red Delicious apple tree grew in Peru, Iowa, in 1875. Its owner tried to chop it down three times, but it refused to die. • Iowa was the 29th state to join the union. Its statehood became official on Dec. 28, 1864. • One-tenth of America’s food supply is grown in Iowa! Our two biggest crops, which we rank No. 1 in the nation for, are corn and soybeans. • The Iowa state motto is “Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.” • The inventor of the sliced bread machine, Otto Frederick Rohwedder, was born in Iowa! That means our state indirectly brought you the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread.”
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