DID YOU KNOW? Top 10 facts: Georgia
Aside from being the largest state east of the Mississippi River, Georgia has 159 counties, more than any other state east of the Mississippi. It is also home to Stone Mountain, a monument for Confederate icons; Stonewall Jackson, General Robert E. Lee, and President Jefferson Davis, where one of its sculptors went on to carve Mount Rushmore.
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In 1912, The Girl Scouts program was born here – in Savannah, Georgia in 1912.
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Set on the campus of Georgia Southern University lies the world’s largest collection of ticks. First established in a lab in Montana, then given to the Smithsonian Institution, over 1 million specimens came to Georgia on loan and never left. Multiple species are represented and painted gold for better viewing under the microscope. They are studied for information about the transmission of diseases.
In 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower the legal voting age from 21 to 18.
Elberton, Georgia is the Granite Capital of the World and Stone Mountain (pictured above), near Atlanta, is one of the largest single masses of exposed granite in the world.
The largest wild hog found ever discovered was found and killed in Alapaha, Georgia. Weighing in at 1,000 pounds and measuring 12 feet in length, the creature was nicknamed "Hogzilla".
Georgia has its very own Loch Ness Monster. Local lore has it the Altamaha-ha sea monster, better known as "Altie," lives in the waters and abandoned rice fields of McIntosh County.
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Babyland General Hospital in North Georgia is where the Cabbage Patch dolls have their origins. Creator Xavier Roberts converted a former clinic into the original “hospital” space, although they’ve since moved into a larger building.
Georgia is home to the invention of the Cherokee written alphabet.
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Traffic in Atlanta is notoriously terrible. In 2020, the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard concluded that drivers spent on average 82 hours a year sitting in traffic.
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Located in Midtown Atlanta, The Varsity is considered to be the world’s largest drive-in restaurant. Founded in 1928, this gigantic fast-food joint can seat 800 diners.
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