- Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
- Huntsville, AL is known as the rocket capital of the world.
- The word Alabama means tribal town in Creek Indian language.
- Alabama is the only state in the US which has all 4 North American poisoness snakes. ( Rattle Snake, Copperhead Snake, Cottonmouth Snake, and the Coral Snake -- I haven't seen one yet and I hope I never do)
- The longest jail sentence ever handed down in the US was received in 1981 by Dudley Wayne Kyzer of Tuscaloosa. He received 10,000 years plus 2 life sentences for killing 3 people.
- People from Alabama are called Alabamians.
- Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a legal holiday in 1936.
- The Unclaimed Baggage Center, which buys all lost luggage from the airlines, is located in Scottsboro, AL. (This is about 45 miles from us in Madison. It is amazing what people take on their trips)
- The first 911 call in the US was make in Haleyville, AL on Feb.16, 1968.
- Alabama marble is considered the purest and whitest in the world. It has been used in buildings such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Alabama. It is also illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church, and that's without an ice cream cone in your back pocket. Imagine what the penalty would be for that particular combination.
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