6.05.2014

10 Interesting Facts About Arkansas

1// Cheese Dogs were created in Little Rock at the Finkbeiner Meat Packing Company in 1956 by inserting cheese into the center of a hot dog.

2// The toothbrush was invented in Arkansas. 

3// Elvis was cleaned up for his service in the Army at Fort Chaffee on March 25, 1958 where he received his televised haircut. The barbershop is now a museum.

4// It’s safer to live in New York City than it is to live in Pine Bluff, Arkansas per capita.

5// Because the Hot Spring water is said to be therapeutic for ailments, many wealthy and health-seeking people have visited Hot Springs including Franklin. D Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone.

6// Arkansas-native Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1932.

7// A farm in Lavaca has a silo painted into a giant Budweiser beer can.

8// Dover has a double-decker and fully operational (when it’s working) outhouse at the Booger Hollow Trading Post.

9// What started off as a small store in Howard County in 1938 turned into Dillard’s, one of the top department stores in the country.

10// Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States along with the only mine where you can mine for your own diamonds.

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Source: Movoto

1 comment:

  1. Arkansa sounds very interesting. How is it safer than NY I wonder?

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