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This one is for Tracey.

Fun facts about IOWA

Iowa is a state.

In the USA.

Iowa has many farms.

Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world.

Iowa has an increasing proportion of people who are aged 60 and over. The group that is 80 and over is increasing more rapidly than any other age group. Iowa's proportion of older adults in the population exceeds that of the United States as a whole. In fact, Iowa ranks second in the nation of percentage of persons aged 85 and older.

Iowa has lots of farms.

Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County. They're called Winnebago's.

I-80 runs through Iowa.

Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.

Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque is the world's steepest and shortest railway.

Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water. Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Iowa is the nation's third most productive agricultural state, following only California and Texas in the value of its yearly farm output.

Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River.

Wright County has the highest percentage of grade-A topsoil in the nation.

Eskimo Pies were invented in 1920 in Onawa, IA.

Maynard Reece is the only artist to win the Federal Duck Stamp competition five times.

The nickname for Iowa is Hawkeye State.

In 1989, Iowa ranked first nationally in production of corn, oats, and hogs; second in production of soybeans; third in production of alfalfa hay, and fifth in total cheese production.

Delaware County in Iowa is the largest pork producing county in the world.

Skunks can shoot their bad-smelling spray only about two yards, but you can smell it up to two and a half miles away.

On average, there are 34 tornadoes each year in Iowa.

And there are farms. Lots of them.

Oh, that one about Skunks? That has nothing to do with Iowa – I just thought you might want to know.

Ok… going to class now…

Posted by Fionnaigh at February 12, 2004 09:08 AM