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.
If you are looking for a few cheap activities go visit some of these places for yourself.
Source: Movoto
Arkansa sounds very interesting. How is it safer than NY I wonder?
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