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*FLORIDA ...................At 874.3 square miles, Jacksonville is the largest U.S. city.

*North Carolina .....Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.

*KENTUCKY ................Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.

*VIRGINIA...................Home of the world's largest office building, The Pentagon.

*TENNESSEE ..............Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.

*GEORGIA ..................It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.

*LOUISIANA ...............Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.

*INDIANA ...................Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters to Santa every year.

*Pennsylvania ........The smiley : ) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.

*WEST VIRGINIA .......Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.

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