Interesting facts about Oklahoma...

[Joe Biden 2020]

Interesting facts of Oklahoma...  This should end any discussion of Oklahoma being irrelevant.

Here Are Some Little Known, But Very Interesting Facts about Oklahoma
1. The bread twist tie was invented in Maysville.
2. The shopping cart was invented in Ardmore in 1936.
3. The nation's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935.
4. The first Girl Scout Cookie was sold in Muskogee in 1917.
5. Cimarron County, located in the Oklahoma Panhandle, is the only
county in the U.S. bordered by 4 separate states...Texas,New Mexico, Colorado & Kansas .
6. The Oklahoma State Capital is the only capital in the U.S. with working oil wells on its grounds.
7. Boise City,Oklahoma was the only city in the United States to be bombed during World War II. On Monday night, July 5,1943, at 12:30 A.M.., a B-17 Bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base,Texas, dropped six
practice bombs on the sleeping town, mistaking the city lights as target lights.COLEMAN - - THE BOMBS WERE PLAY LIKE BOMBS IN FACT,SACKS OF FLOUR - TO REMIND THEM OKIES IN THE OUTBACK THE DRILL WAS FOR THEM TOO. THE ONLY HARM ---- WHITE ROOFS.
8. WKY Radio in Oklahoma City was the first radio station transmitting west of the Mississippi River .
9. The nation's first 'Tornado Warning' was issued on March 25,1948 in Oklahoma City minutes before a devastating tornado. Because of the warning, no lives were lost.
10. Oklahoma has the largest Native American population of any state in the U.S. It also has 234 different Indian Tribes.
11. The name 'Oklahoma' comes from two Choctaw words...Okla. meaning 'people' and humma meaning 'red'. So the name means, 'Red People.' The
name was approved in 1890.
12. Oklahoma produced more astronauts than any other state.
13. Oklahoma has more man made lakes than any other state.
14. During the 'Land Rush', Oklahoma City went from a vast, open prairie to a city of over 10,000 in a single day.
15. The nation's first traffic 'Yield' sign was erected in Tulsa on a trial basis.
NOTE: It doesn't say WHO invented the Yield sign...it was a man named Clinton Riggs, a police officer in Tulsa, OK. A police officer with a law degree who later became Tulsa's police chief, taught at the basic
police academy at Oklahoma University. He was posthumously honored last year at a law officers memorial ceremony.
16. Pensacola Dam is the longest multi-arched dam in the world at 6,565 feet.
17. The ' Port of Catoosa ' (just north of Tulsa ) is the largest inland port in America .
18. The aerosol can was invented in Bartlesville .
19. Per square mile, Oklahoma has more tornadoes than any other place in the world.
20. The highest wind speed ever recorded on earth was in Moore, Oklahoma on May 3rd. 1999 during the Oklahoma City F-5 tornado. Wind speed was clocked at 318 mph.
21. The 'Will Rogers World Airport' and the 'Wiley Post Airport' are both named after two famous Oklahomans...both killed in an airplane crash!!!
22. Cushing, Oklahoma is the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World." And has the largest storage of oil in the world.
23. The long running Broadway Play, Oklahoma!'s main song "Oklahoma" is now the State Song of the state.

[Keystone Phil]

Caution. You're about to enter an Excellent Thread.

[bullmoose88]

Nope...that hellhole's still not worth the time of day.  Thanks for playing.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Nope...that hellhole's still not worth the time of day.  Thanks for playing.

Mommy, he's funny!  He should be a stand up comedian!

[Lief 🗽]

None of these facts are really that interesting? Though historically I guess OK is one of the more interesting states, with its significant relocated Native American population and strong Socialist movement.

[DINGO Joe]

This wacky Okie is more interesting than all those facts.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/meet-cleta-mitchell-the-conservative-movements-anti-gay-eminence-grise/274629/

When I was a Cub Scout or in Indian Guides I took a field trip to the Port of Catoosa--a truly, truly underwhelming experience.  You'd think Wooloroc would have to rank as something

[Franzl]

If that stuff counts as "interesting"...

[Mr. Morden]

That's a fascinating list of 23 factoids.  I'll print it out and read it whenever I have insomnia.

[tmthforu94]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

[Franzl]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

I'm alwys bored out of my mind even in the St. Louis metro area. Can't imagine how awful the "peaceful" prairie life must be.

[Mr. Morden]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

Oklahoma isn't part of the Midwest by any reasonable definition.

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is about as much of a joke as California City, California. Here's downtown California City.

[Ban my account ffs!]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

I'm alwys bored out of my mind even in the St. Louis metro area. Can't imagine how awful the "peaceful" prairie life must be.

It has its good bits.  One of my favorite things as a kid was visiting my friend's grandma's farm near Sauk Center, Minnesota.. playing in the hay loft in the massive barn and running through the corn fields... tire swings... that kinda thing.  It was awesome.

[TDAS04]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

Oklahoma does not completely fit in any major region, but it is culturally far more Southern than Midwestern.  The same is true for Missouri, but to a lesser extent. 

There seems to be something about the Okie way of life that sharply contrasts the state with the Plains States further North.  Nebraska is currently ranked as the 15th healthiest state, Kansas the 24th, and Oklahoma the 43rd.

http://www.americashealthrankings.org/Rankings

Also, notice that Iowa is the 20th healthiest, and Missouri the 42nd.  There is a very strange pattern here.

[Paul Kemp]

this thread lol

[Sol]

Interesting facts of Oklahoma...  This should end any discussion of Oklahoma being irrelevant.

Here Are Some Little Known, But Very Interesting Facts about Oklahoma...
1. The bread twist tie was invented in Maysville.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

It's still Jokelahoma

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Interesting facts of Oklahoma...  This should end any discussion of Oklahoma being irrelevant.

Here Are Some Little Known, But Very Interesting Facts about Oklahoma...
1. The bread twist tie was invented in Maysville.

Quite typical that this turned into a unknowing self-parody...

[tmthforu94]

The beautiful prairies that we have been raised to love is what makes Oklahoma such a wonderful state, Bushie. Many good, friendly people live in Oklahoma, and life goes on peacefully and at ease, not rushed like it may be on the coasts. I'd take our Midwestern way of life any day!

Oklahoma isn't part of the Midwest by any reasonable definition.

I've always grown up with a different interpretation of what the Midwest is than I've seen folks from other parts of the nation (and world) think. I lived awfully close to the Kansas-Oklahoma border, and by the definition used by many in this area, Oklahoma would certainly qualify as a Midwestern state.

[traininthedistance]

It constantly blows my mind that the Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma.

[bore]

Hmm....

in·ter·est·ing 
 
1.
engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
2.
arousing a feeling of interest: an interesting face.

[minionofmidas]

Interesting facts of Oklahoma...  This should end in a discussion of Oklahoma being irrelevant.

Corrected.

[minionofmidas]

Oh, and Oklahoma is the Choctaw translation of "Indian Territory". That then became the name of a railway stop in the middle of nowhere. That then became the name of a boomtown near it, in the parts of the territory stolen at that time. That then became the name of a territory created out of Indian Territory. With which it was reunited at statehood.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is about as much of a joke as California City, California. Here's downtown California City.

Here are some photos of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  A far cry from California City, California.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=667&q=photos+of+downtown+oklahoma+city&oq=Downtown+Oklahoma+City&gs_l=img.3.3.0l2j0i5l2j0i24l6.1653.6086.0.8622.22.19.0.3.3.0.166.1866.16j3.19.0...0.0...1ac.1.8.img.H6UZS10xcuM#imgrc=_

Oklahoma City is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

[Franzl]

One of the most beautiful cities in the world? Oklahoma City?