Oklahoma

• The first Girl Scout Cookie was sold in Muskogee in 1917.

• The world's largest deposit of alabaster is at Alabaster Caverns near Freedom.

• The Will Rogers World Airport and the Wiley Post Airport are both named after two famous Oklahomans, both of whom perished in the same airplane crash.

• Oklahoma is the only state in the U.S. that produces iodine.

• The nation's first "tornado warning" was issued March 25, 1948 in Oklahoma City minutes before a devastating tornado. Because of the warning, no lives were lost.


• A City Ordinance in Oklahoma, states that it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.

• Ada - If you wear New York Jets clothing, you may be put in jail.

• Bromide - It is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be superman.

• In Oklahoma, people who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.

• Tulsa - It is against the law to open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.

• It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle.

• It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.

• Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.

• Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car.

• Females are not allowed to do their own hair unless they are licensed by the state.


• Catoosa - Blue Whale of Catoosa - Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

• Edmond - Gandini's Circus - Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

• Oklahoma City - Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited - Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

• Tahlequah - Mister Ed's Grave - The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

• Tulsa - Buck Atom - Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.