Keep America weird: strangest facts about each state

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South Carolina​

South Carolina's Morgan Island is home to some 4,000 rhesus monkeys, however visitors aren't welcome. The monkeys are strictly used for AIDS research.

 

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South Dakota​

Pierre is the only capital city in the US that doesn’t share at least one letter with its state.

 

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Tennessee​

The man who gave us Jack Daniel’s died after angrily kicking a safe. His hurt toe lead to the blood infection that would kill them.

 

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Texas​

Texas is larger than any country in western Europe.

 

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Utah​

Utahns consume so much Jell-O that it became the state's official dessert in 2001.

 

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Vermont​

Montpelier is the only US capital that doesn't have a McDonald's.

 

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Virginia​

There are more vanity plates in Virginia than there are people in the state of Rhode Island.

 

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Washington​

Washington has more glaciers than the other 47 contiguous states combined.

 

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West Virginia​

Pizza may not be the first things that comes to mind when you think of West Virginia, but the state has more pizza shops than gyms.

 

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Wisconsin​

The first smooth, splinter-free toilet paper was invented in Wisconsin. Most toilet papers in the early 20th century were made of wood chips until Northern Paper started “linenizing” it.

 

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Wyoming​

Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote. In 1869, the territory’s legislature declared that “every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may at every election…cast her vote.”