25 Facts About Nebraska

25 facts about Nebraska that you may not have known.

•1.) The Naval Ammunition Depot located in Hastings was the largest U.S. ammunition plant providing 40% of WWII's ammunition.

•2.) Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich.

•3.) The 911 system of emergency communications, now used nationwide, was developed and first used in Lincoln, Nebraska.

•4.) Marlon Brando's mother gave Henry Fonda acting lessons at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

•5.) The University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team has produced more Academic All-Americans than any other Division I school.

•6.) In Nebraska in 1986 for the first time ever two women ran against each other for governorship of a state.

•7.) Dr. Harold Edgerton of Aurora, Nebraska is the inventor of the strobe light.

•8.) Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917.

•9.) The world's largest "Wolly Mammoth" elephant fossil was found in Lincoln County.

•10.) J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day in Nebraska City in 1872.

•11.) Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont, NE.

•12.) The State of Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state.

•13.) The State of Nebraska is the only state in the union with a unicameral (one house) legislature.

•14.) Origin of Nebraska's Name: From an Oto Indian word meaning flat water

•15.) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln weight room is the largest in the country. It covers three-fourths of an acre

•16.) The State insect is the honeybee.

•17.) The State motto: Equality before the law.

•18.) The State flower is the goldenrod.

•19.) The state nickname was once the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in 1945 to the "Cornhusker State".

•20.) Nebraska's State Gem is the Blue Agate.

•21.) Nebraska was the first state to ever have two women run against each other for governorship of a state in 1986.

•22.) The state nickname used to be the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in 1945 to the "Cornhusker State".

•23.) Edwin E. Perkins of Hastings invented the powered soft drink Kool-Aid In 1927.

•24.) Nebraska has more underground water reserves than any other state in the continental U.S.

•25.) Chimney rock in Wastern Nebraska is the most mentioned landmark in journal entries by travelers on the Oregon Trail.