Corny Facts about Nebraska

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Oh Yeah!”: Kool-Aid Man Television Commercials, 1978

Nebraska saw the birth of Kool-Aid which, due to the huge pitcher-like head, was a cesarean birth…

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Nebraska Cornhuskers’ football stadium is capable of holding more than 90,000 people. On game day, the stadium becomes the 3rd most populated place in the state!  What’s the second most populated place in the state?  The highway OUT of Nebraska…

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A replica of the historic English Stonehenge, is located just north of Alliance, Nebraska and is made up of 38 old automobiles that have been arranged in the same proportions and shape as the original Stonehenge.  In the other forty-nine states, this is known as a “junkyard”…

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Weeping Water, Nebraska is the nations largest limestone deposit and producer.  Think about that the next time you buy a big ol’ box of limestone.

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“Nebraska” is from the Otoe Indian word for “Flat Water”.  Not a great name but better than the second most popular “South Dakota Jr.”…

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The Tri-Faith Initiative started as a way for a Rabbi and an Imam to share worship facilities but now supports an entire campus of buildings.  It has since added a Christian component.  People are inspired by the three faiths working in unison to tell the rest of us we are evil and going to Hell.

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Nebraska’s state fish is the Channel Catfish.  The fish upgraded to cable in 2010 and now gets three hundred channels.

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Nebraska’s state beverage is milk.  Its state food is limestone and its state mental illness is Taurette’s Syndrome.

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The largest mammoth skeleton ever found was found in Nebraska.  The bones can be found stacked in the same manner as was Stonehenge in a grocery store parking lot.

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Nebraskans call themselves “corn huskers” because “hapless yokels” seemed unnecessarily hurtful.

21 thoughts on “Corny Facts about Nebraska”

    1. I hate to do this to you: “… Sweet corn is a great catfish bait. Using sweet corn to catch catfish works better in winter time because the small fish are less likely to steal the kernels…. “

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  2. The original name of the Cornhuskers was Bug Eaters. I kid you not.

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    In addition to the cars arranged in the Stonehenge formation, there are also dinosaurs made out of car parts. So yes, anywhere else it would be called a junkyard.

    Flat water describes the largest river that bisects the state–the Platte River. It is described as a mile wide and an inch deep. Too thick to drink and too thin to plow.

    The state fish is the Channel CATFISH. They can get to be 50 pounds so they are big and bottom feeders. You can never pry the remote from them and they only watch Jerry Springer and Reality shows.

    The largest Mammoth dig is claimed by Nebraska, but is located in North Nebraska–Hot Springs, North Nebraska. It was a sink hole and they’ve only found male mammoths. Paleontologists think there are 2 reasons for this:

    1. They never asked for directions.

    2. Their favorite activity included “Hold My Beer and watch me jump across this sink hole.”

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      1. More commisserating than competing.

        We went to see an eclipse…on a Husker Home Football game day, and the eclipse ended just before the game ended and EVERY ROAD including the interstate was backed up 50 miles in every direction and it took us 3 1/2 hours to travel 45 miles. So when you said that the biggest city in Nebraska that day was Any Road Leading out of Lincoln.

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      3. OMG! I can imagine it!

        We were in Atlanta, GA for a convention.

        We were leaving the last night with 50,000 others, there was a Country Music Concert that was getting out and a Baseball game that just finished up, then the MARTA we were on broke down.

        Picture:
        Insurance Salesmen in company shirts,
        Girls in frilly dresses, Cowboy hats and sequinned boots
        and Very drunk people in body paint
        at midnight on a train that didn’t move for an hour.

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