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List - 50 Bizarre Facts About Each State from August 10th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, is this sponsored?
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  Speaker 2: No, I just have this thing that's not sponsored.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's Radio from Hell. With another list because people
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  Speaker 1: love a good list. At ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: I have a list of fifty bizarre facts about fifty states.
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  Speaker 2: So one fact per state.
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  Speaker 1: How bizarre could it be?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's find out the Unclaimed Baggage Center
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  Speaker 2: in this state. Do you want to try to guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me see. I think I know the state.
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  Speaker 2: The Unclaimed Baggage Center in this state claims to be
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  Speaker 2: the only lost luggage retailer in the United States. The
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  Speaker 2: outlet buys lost an unclaimed baggage. Things have that have
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  Speaker 2: been found include a fire suit, a space shuttle camera,
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  Speaker 2: an Egyptian burial mask.
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  Speaker 1: What state is and you and you can go there
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  Speaker 1: and buy stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw a documentary about it. Was it Tennessee?
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, it's it's Alabama?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Clothes?
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  Speaker 2: A small town band dropping moose out of planes after
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  Speaker 2: peta mistook a contest involving dropping moose feces from an
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  Speaker 2: aircraft for one in which the animal itself was released.
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  Speaker 1: Moose. Well, i'd be Alaska, Yes, Alaska. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Hiking through this state will certainly get you up and
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  Speaker 2: close and personal with these states emblematic cactuses or is
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  Speaker 2: it cacti Arizona. Yeah, whatever you do, though, don't even
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  Speaker 2: think about cutting down one of them and taking them home.
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  Speaker 2: You will get twenty five years in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Swagaro, Cigaro, they're the ones with the arms. Twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently. The Crater of Diamond State Park in this state.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that woman found her in Diamond.
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  Speaker 2: There is the only diamond mine in the world that
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  Speaker 2: allows visitors to search for their own precious stones. In
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  Speaker 2: nineteen twenty four, one workman found a forty carrot diamond there,
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  Speaker 2: dubbed the Uncle Sam, the largest diamond ever discovered in
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 1: Is it like Virginia or Arkansas? Arkansas?
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  Speaker 2: This state lays claim to the world's largest tree. This
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  Speaker 2: one's easy.
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  Speaker 1: Californiayeah, California. That's you could drive. There's a road that
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  Speaker 1: goes through it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Here's another one. The annual Frozen Dead Guy Days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, honors the memory of a man who died
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  Speaker 2: of a heart condition and then packed in dry ice
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  Speaker 2: and was transported back to America. I think it's Colorado, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he was submerged headfirst into liquid nitrogen in the Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Hotels Old ice House announce stands as a testament for cryonics.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, frozen dead guy days. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This state is known as the nutmeg state, but not
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  Speaker 2: because it produces a lot of this spice. Ships in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought back nutmeg and other
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  Speaker 2: exotic spices from their travels. Eventually, unscrupulous traders began passing
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  Speaker 2: off carved pieces of wood as nutmeg seeds. This is nutmeg.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be somewhere on the East coast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Massachusetts, North Connecticut, Connecticut. In this state, chickens outnumber
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  Speaker 2: people two hundred to one.
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  Speaker 1: It's where what's his name, Jo Biden?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's Delaware. But what I was trying to think,
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  Speaker 3: isn't that where? Never mind? Okay the big chicken business guys. No,
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  Speaker 3: his name is on the chickens, is it. No, I'll
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  Speaker 3: remember it in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. The official skunk Ape headquarters is devoted to sightings
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  Speaker 2: of the mythical skunk Ape.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a skunk cake, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal in Florida, of course, yes. Let's see. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: what is the only state that has a royal palace?
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  Speaker 2: This one's easy. Where would that be?
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  Speaker 1: Royal palace?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only state that has a royal New York,
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii because it was its own, it was its own thing.
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  Speaker 3: I keep forgetting about them.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm skipping some states because they're kind of boring.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Geography professor led a team that used topography data and
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  Speaker 2: microscopes to compare the state's flatness to a restaurant pancake
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  Speaker 2: and conclude did that the state is in fact flatter
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  Speaker 2: than a pancake?
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  Speaker 1: Probably Kansas, Kansas? Purdue, Purdue, right, Purdue, Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Someone text that it is.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, when this state swears in new governors, they
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  Speaker 2: must promise they will never fight a duel with a
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  Speaker 2: deadly weapon or even help someone engage in this. The
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  Speaker 2: oath goes back to eighteen forty nine, when the powers
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  Speaker 2: that sought to stop the practice of settling disputes.
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  Speaker 1: With lethal say it's New York. No, Kentucky, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: You have to So the governor still has to swear
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  Speaker 2: and I will not.
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  Speaker 3: So I was saying it was New York isn't that
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  Speaker 3: where Hamilton had Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: Had their Googles.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this one doesn't make any sense. I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to read it. Okay, what what state is the closest
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  Speaker 2: to Africa?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: What's state? State is its closest to Africa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's not Florida, because you brought that up earlier, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So this says Maine, Maine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The Quadyhead Peninsula Lighthouse is the easternmost part of the
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  Speaker 2: United States and sits about five thousand kilometers from Africa.
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  Speaker 2: So because it's stuck that far out into the ocean,
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  Speaker 2: you would think it's Florida. But if you think about
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  Speaker 2: how the shape of Africa, yeah, it gets narrower towards
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  Speaker 2: the bottom, and that's kind of cool. Okay, let's see
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  Speaker 2: this state is far from boring when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: town names, despite one actually being boring Illinois, New Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: Maryland boring, boring Maryland. The Magic Capital of the world
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  Speaker 2: is in?
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  Speaker 1: Which state? The magic capital in Nevada? No, that's probably Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: It's Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: It's where.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen twenty six magician Harry Blackstone. Is that someone
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  Speaker 2: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, famous summage. Yeah, his son was a magician too.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Do you know what state invented
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  Speaker 2: the sport of water skiing? If you think about it
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  Speaker 2: for two seconds' because you do that on a lake.
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  Speaker 1: Usually lots of states have lakes, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how about lots.
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  Speaker 3: And lots of Minnesota. Yeah, land of a thousand lakes.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, well, Utah and okay, well let me I
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  Speaker 2: gotta skip. Then let's see what Utah's is h Rhode Island, Texas. Uh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's dumb.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the boring fact about you? What?
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  Speaker 2: What? What do you think the boring fact is?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Probably I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Utahs find jellos jiggling, simply irresistible, green, the color of amore.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even the thing anymore of that. We've hoped
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  Speaker 1: you'd enjoyed.
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