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Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:12 pm
The state of Missouri was named after a tribe of Sioux Indians of the state called the Missouris. The word "Missouri" means "wooden canoe people" or "he of the big canoe."
Missouri is home to more than 6,100 known caves. Missouri is known as “the cave state.” Richland, Missouri, is the only city in the U.S. with a cave restaurant
St. Louis, Missouri hosted the the first Olympic Games ever held in the United States. Chicago, Illinois originally won the bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis began to plan for its own sports activities, threatening to eclipse the Olympic Games unless they were moved to St. Louis. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in and moved the games to St. Louis. It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in a majority English language nation, and the first time that they were held outside of Europe. Almost half of the marathon runners got heat stroke, and the first-place winner cheated by hitching a car ride from mile for 10 miles.
At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream. Also introduced at the fair were cotton candy, iced tea, and Dr Pepper.
The first successful parachute jump from a moving plane was made above the Jefferson Barracks military post, near St. Louis, on March 1, 1912. U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry climbed to 1,500 feet in a Benoist aircraft and jumped
Kansas City, Missouri has more fountains than any city in the world except Rome.
Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, built in the 1920s, was America's first suburban shopping center. The elegant area now boasts nearly 250 shops, stores and restaurants
In 1873, Susan Elizabeth Blow opened the first public kindergarten in the United States in St. Louis after having become interested in the kindergarten methods of philosopher Friedrich Froebel while traveling in Germany a few years earlier. Blow later established a training school for kindergarten teachers
The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811, centered in New Madrid. It shook more than one million square miles and was felt 1,000 miles away.
Missouri is home to more than 6,100 known caves. Missouri is known as “the cave state.” Richland, Missouri, is the only city in the U.S. with a cave restaurant
St. Louis, Missouri hosted the the first Olympic Games ever held in the United States. Chicago, Illinois originally won the bid to host the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the organizers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis began to plan for its own sports activities, threatening to eclipse the Olympic Games unless they were moved to St. Louis. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, gave in and moved the games to St. Louis. It was the first time that the Olympic Games were held in a majority English language nation, and the first time that they were held outside of Europe. Almost half of the marathon runners got heat stroke, and the first-place winner cheated by hitching a car ride from mile for 10 miles.
At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream. Also introduced at the fair were cotton candy, iced tea, and Dr Pepper.
The first successful parachute jump from a moving plane was made above the Jefferson Barracks military post, near St. Louis, on March 1, 1912. U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry climbed to 1,500 feet in a Benoist aircraft and jumped
Kansas City, Missouri has more fountains than any city in the world except Rome.
Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, built in the 1920s, was America's first suburban shopping center. The elegant area now boasts nearly 250 shops, stores and restaurants
In 1873, Susan Elizabeth Blow opened the first public kindergarten in the United States in St. Louis after having become interested in the kindergarten methods of philosopher Friedrich Froebel while traveling in Germany a few years earlier. Blow later established a training school for kindergarten teachers
The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811, centered in New Madrid. It shook more than one million square miles and was felt 1,000 miles away.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:14 pm to deeprig9
TL;DR:
Missouri is boring and irrelevant.
Missouri is boring and irrelevant.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:16 pm to LewDawg
So many Mizzou threads......
Jesus
Jesus
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:17 pm to LewDawg
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I hate all of you
This one wasn't even a troll, they were actually just random facts.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:18 pm to deeprig9
This post is like Where's Waldo. I know there is a troll in there somewhere, I just don't see it yet. Help me out...
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:18 pm to deeprig9
Missouri also has more nuclear warheads than any other state in the United States.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:19 pm to deeprig9
Tennessee has more caves than Missouri FWIW
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:20 pm to TRUERockyTop
Georgia has more beaches than Missouri
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:20 pm to deeprig9
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Almost half of the marathon runners got heat stroke, and the first-place winner cheated by hitching a car ride from mile for 10 miles.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:21 pm to deeprig9
tGOAT rebel slayer, William T. Sherman is buried in St. Louis, MO.
ETA: I already know some of you southerners came up here to piss on his grave.
ETA: I already know some of you southerners came up here to piss on his grave.
This post was edited on 5/16/17 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:24 pm to JesusQuintana
From your perspective, are there any facts included that you think are significant?
Just, you know, asking for a friend...
Just, you know, asking for a friend...
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:35 pm to deeprig9
Kansas City BBQ sucks elephant balls.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 1:50 pm to yatesdog38
That is clearly wrong. KC BBQ is far and away the best and we BBQ everything.
Missouri vineyards saved French vineyards. California started getting the same problem as France had and instead of going to Missouri they went to France to get the second hand solution. So really French and California wine is Missouri wine.
Missouri vineyards saved French vineyards. California started getting the same problem as France had and instead of going to Missouri they went to France to get the second hand solution. So really French and California wine is Missouri wine.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 4:07 pm to TigerTalker16
Well we're not going to give you anymore until you use what you already have.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 4:13 pm to TRUERockyTop
Ummm those arent caves you are referring to, just the women in TN, they be cavernous, very cavernous lol
Posted on 5/16/17 at 4:20 pm to deeprig9
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Also introduced at the fair were cotton candy, iced tea, and Dr Pepper.
Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick, I'm in a god-damn hurry.
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