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Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States.


In 1990 Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 33 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves.


At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.


Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita, Kansas.


A grain elevator in Hutchinson is ½ mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins.


In Lucas, Civil War veteran S.P. Dinsmoor used over 100 tons of concrete to build the Garden of Eden. Even the flag is made of concrete.


Russell Springs in Logan County is known as the Cow Chip Capital of Kansas.


At Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine waterbeds are used in surgery for horses.


The graham cracker was named after the Reverend Sylvester Graham. He was a minister who strongly believed in eating whole-wheat flour products.

Sumner County is known as the Wheat Capital of the World.


In 1919 the first airplane factory in Kansas was built in Wichita, which became one of the nation's top plane manufacturing cities.


Dwight Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, was born in Abeline, Kansas in 1890.


Kansas was a crucial battleground in the fight over slavery between 1858-1859, and was finally admitted as a free state in 1861, just before the Civil War.

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