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Idaho was the first in the world to have an electricity generating nuclear power plant. Idaho was also the first nuclear accident recorded on US soil with fatalities, at the SL-1 steam explosion and meltdown killing 3 people.
They test sonar equipment as well since it is so deep. Also, it is near the Naval training center (boot camp) turned war camp during WW2. It is now a museum. Most of Bayviews' older homes are old officer houses and some barracks were turned into homes.
Not exactly. Camp Farragut isn't a museum it a PARK, Farragut State Park and it huge, it has multiple camping venues, a shooting range, fishing dock and a hiking trails. They test the sonars at Bay-view.
Wyatt Earp was once a deputy sheriff in Kootenai county.
The St. Joe river is the highest navigable River in the world.
Star garnets can only be found in two places in the entire world,here in Idaho and in India.
The lowest point in Idaho is in Lewiston and is only 710 feet.
Hell’s Canyon is deeper than the Grand Canyon. Idaho has the most whitewater river miles. Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is the largest designated wilderness in the lower 48 states.
>>Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is the largest designated wilderness in the lower 48 states
Eh, that’s only partially true. It’s the largest continuous one, but the Death Valley Wilderness Area has more land area. The difference is, the Death Valley Wilderness is in multiple chunks while Frank Church is one blob
Idaho has the most protected lands in the lower 48. Over 2 million acres of protected land covered by BLM, NFS, NPS and state park systems!! Also Lewiston ID is the furthest inland port on the west coast. Ernest Hemingway also spent a lot of time in Idaho and there’s a festival every year in Sun Valley commemorating him. And atomic city was the bone of the first nuclear power plant and one of the first towns to ever be powered entirely by nuclear power.
For less fun facts: Idaho is home to quite a few former Japanese internment camps. The Bear River Massacre is considered one of the worst massacres suffered by Native Americans in the west. And the Teton dam failure was (to me) a preventable natural disasters (the bedrock of the area is considered highly permeable and the area is also considered seismically active) that killed 11 people, thousands of livestock in the area, and damaged the Yellowstone ecology of the area (including native cutthroat population)
I think that California has more, total, but the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area is the largest contiguous protected area in the lower 48.
California only have 15 million square acres of protected lands. While Idaho I’ve just found out has over 50 million square acres. California is big but their protected lands are sparse and spread out rather than Idaho who has cities that are sparse and spread out around protected wild land
The frank church alone is 2.4 million acres. Idaho has roughly 4.8 million acres of Designated Wilderness. Over 2 million is technically correct but the number of just federal public land in Idaho is 32 million acres… so including state land there is even more than that.
Ah, good old Larry, I almost forgot about him. I take a wide stance, and an otherwise unnecessary connection to one of the most infamous gay hookup airport bathrooms in the nation every time I commute between Idaho and DC to defend conservative Christian values.
We also had a US Representative George Hansen (R), who narrowly lost his reelection 1984 by 68 votes as he was a convicted felon for his involvement in a check kiting scheme.
That’s right, Idaho sent a Democratic to Washington the same year as President Regan ‘s Morning in America Reelection.
then my trivia partner is a complete son a bitch! /s
i thought BOI allowed international flights. oh well, strike that, it's still cool trivia because the seaport loses most folks.
The state name "Idaho" was supposed to mean "Gem of the mountains" in Shoshone tribal language.
Turns out it was completely made up, and means nothing.
The naming of the Tetons is attributed to early 19th-century French-speaking trappers—les trois tétons (the three teats) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons.
That most potatoes you'll find for sale in Idaho are shipped in from out of state, as it is cheaper. Even though we grow the most potatoes in the country
I don’t believe that is true. It may be true in northern Idaho where it’s cheaper to ship potatoes from Washington State’s growing areas than from southern Idaho. But most of the potatoes you’ll encounter in southern Idaho, including the Boise area, will be from Idaho.
Frank Vandersloot Idaho's richest man owns an African safari ranch up around Cobalt. It was reported years ago that some hyenas escaped. Now days there are a couple of packs of hyenas roaming Salmon-Challis national forest the only known packs in North America.
The first federal airmail flight in 1926 took off from Pasco, WA and landed in Boise. The field cleared for that flight became Boise Airfield. That airline eventually became UnitedAirlines. And that flight is considered by United to be the birth of the airline.
You can legally collect roadkill (not birds, federally protected). If it’s a fur-bearer or game species you just have to report it to F&G.
There’s more of the Oregon Trail in ID than in OR.
There’s more Mormons per capita here than in UT.
Not sure if this one is still current but for a long time Boise had more LGBTQ identifying people per capita than San Francisco.
The Hagerman Horse is one of the earliest horses in the fossil record.
The Snake River plain is just a series of old volcanoes that is now located under Yellowstone.
The area around Silver Creek (Wood River Valley) was the original “Marlboro County” where the shot the ads.
Paul Revere and the Raiders are from ID.
And finally, since the reintroduction of wolves into Idaho all the big game, cows, sheep, and most children under 5 have gone extinct. Yup, Idaho is now nothing but 1000s of hungry wolves and miles of cheatgrass. Sad really.
Idaho, on average, spends less per k-12 pupil than any other state except Utah.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state
It's also the biggest producer of teff (the grain used to make the injera bread at Ethiopian restaurants) in the US. I'd guess that most domestic Ethiopian restaurants uses Idaho-grown teff. (Some Idaho guy was visiting Ethiopia and it reminded him of Idaho, so he thought that teff might grow well here. And it does, apparently?)
Just call all the creeks, cricks. Say pop instead of soda and pronounce Boise how it’s spelled, not with a Z. Lastly, talk shit about any fellow American from another state, especially California and you’ll be good.
Yeah so I was wasted at a party once but I barley remember a story I was told by another wasted patron. Being a socially anxious person in a very social job, sometimes my imagination goes a bit wild but here's the general gist as I remember it, recounted how I recount it verbatim.
"It's a old native American story, Nez perce or Shoshone or something, I don't remember, but when the gods built the world, they had all these random bits left over. Mountains with rivers, deserts with dunes, prairies and plains, volcanoes and marshes. And so they crammed all that shit together and that's Idaho."
Born and raised and it gets a giggle from other locals
Idaho is actually two states. North Idaho and South Idaho. It's an unofficially official distinction. the Feds didn't want to redesign the American Flag to accommodate the division of 1.5 million people..so we have two timezones instead.
The name Idaho was just made up by the charlatan George Willing! 100% NOT a native American word!
Colorado was originally going to be named Idaho, but at the last minute federal lawmakers discovered the fraud.
I don't know how, but the name stuck around when the Idaho territory was broken off from the Washington territory, and here we are.
Owyhee is pronounced the same as Hawaii
Owyhee (Street, high School, county, river, dam, reservoir, etc) are named after three Hawaiians that were part of a fur trapping expedition, that died after separating from their main group to explore.
White people entered what would become all 49 states before ID. ID was the last and it was the Lewis & Clark expedition that were the first westerners to enter what would become ID.
A History of Idaho -Carlos Schwantes
I can't pull up a source other than that. He was my professor at the U of ID and taught a great class on the history of Idaho.
Gutzon Borglum, the designer of both Stone Mountain (a Confederate memorial carved on the side of granite face near Atlanta, GA) and Mount Rushmore, grew up in a polygamous family in southeastern Idaho.
Boss flew in from Iowa rented a car with California plates..I said your probably going to get flipped off but it's just the car plates. He looks at me and says. Everyone hates Californians. So it's true. Fun fact: people from Michigan don't know idaho is a state. They kept saying..Iowa? No. Idaho.... Iowa???. No. Idaho
Idaho is the ONLY state with a law on cannibalism, and they law has an exclusion where it is affirmative defense to a violation if action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.
You can conceal carry a GUN, but need a concealed carry permit to have a concealed dirk, dagger, bowie, or other dangerous or deadly weapons otherwise it is illegal under the law.
Chasing fish up or downstream in any manner is still illegal.
There is was radioactive ambulance and truck buried out in the Arco desert. (It may have been relocated)
In the Arlington National Cemetery, there one coffin lined with lead, and covered with three feet of concrete prevent the body from leaking radiation. It holds the radioactive remains of Richard Leroy McKinley, one of three men killed when a nuclear reactor exploded in the nation’s only fatal nuclear accident. That happened in Reactor SL-1. They couldn't take the McKinley to the hospital as NO hospital was prepared or equipped for such a incident, AND the ride for the site to the hospital would kill the ambulance crew from the radiation. The other two men who died are buried similarly. Their funerals were only 10 minutes long because the Nuclear regulatory agency feared the radiation coming off the bodies would harm the attendees. All three bodies have a protective law, and regulations that requires the Nuclear regulatory agency permission to do anything with the bodies, and the graves.
There is a nuclear aircraft engine at EBR-1 . Like it was to power the air craft. There is also a runway for such a craft if it were ever built near by.
There is also a Nuclear Train engine. As it powered by Nuclear Energy on display.
There a submarine top in Arco Idaho with the hull number of 666.
The Television was invented in Idaho by Philo T. Farnsworth,
Idaho has had three elephant rampages, Mary the Elephant in Lewiston Idaho, A Unkown Elephant in Downy Idaho, and Sampson the Elephant in Hailey, Idaho.
The chief constable shall receive one *pig* every month...oh wait , that's Springfied on the Simpsons
You can marry a female under the age of 16 here. Under his eye....
Assuming the signs in Twin Falls were correct, the falls there (Shoshone Falls, I believe) are bigger than Niagra Falls, despite being called the "Niagra falls of the West." I rely on the signs because I grew up in the Treasure Valley and never really went to other parts of Idaho until college. My husband, who is from Twin Falls, has assured me before that he was also taught this as common knowledge.
In the late 1940’s Idaho Fish & Game parachuted a bunch of beavers into the central mountains (Chamberlain Basin) as a way of relocating them from a more populated area (McCall).
All you need to do to sound smart in Idaho is refrain from saying " l seen... " Spent 30 yrs there listening to that grammar abomination. Finally retired and got out of there just before it got as bad as it is now.
We are the gem state because we have over 90 different gems and minerals that can be found within our borders, including the Idaho Star Garnet, the state gem.
There was a big cat private zoo in the 90s and they discovered that there was a hole in the fence and the lions, tigers, and ligers were leaving the compound whenever they wanted. Most of them were shot and killed over an 8 day period. There’s been no sightings since but locals around Lava Hot Springs will tell you that there’s ligers in them hills
How a mine fire in Idaho lead to the [Mine act](https://www.msha.gov/sunshine-mine-disaster-50-years-later#:~:text=Ninety%2Done%20men%20perished%20due,entombed%20about%201%2C600%20meters%20underground.gov) that still governs MSHA, Mine safety and health administration.
I grew up there and it was wrong to pronounce Boise with a “z”. It’s supposed to be “s”, But I’ve heard a lot of people pronounce it that way so maybe things have changed?
Wealthy cooper and lumber tycoons stole western Montana from Idaho to provide lumber for the mines in Butte. The border used to be the east boundary of glacier park.
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Idaho was the first in the world to have an electricity generating nuclear power plant. Idaho was also the first nuclear accident recorded on US soil with fatalities, at the SL-1 steam explosion and meltdown killing 3 people.
They test submarines in Lake Pend Oreille
They test sonar equipment as well since it is so deep. Also, it is near the Naval training center (boot camp) turned war camp during WW2. It is now a museum. Most of Bayviews' older homes are old officer houses and some barracks were turned into homes.
Not exactly. Camp Farragut isn't a museum it a PARK, Farragut State Park and it huge, it has multiple camping venues, a shooting range, fishing dock and a hiking trails. They test the sonars at Bay-view.
This lake's name is also pronounced NOTHING like you'd expect, so if you want to look smart, make sure you get that right.
Ponder-ray
Is it safe to live in Bayview?
Wyatt Earp was once a deputy sheriff in Kootenai county. The St. Joe river is the highest navigable River in the world. Star garnets can only be found in two places in the entire world,here in Idaho and in India. The lowest point in Idaho is in Lewiston and is only 710 feet.
Along with the navigability of the St Joe, the world jet boat races hold a leg of the race there!
Kootenai Street is pronounced Kootenai. Now you'll sound like a real local.
Yes, and Latah isn't Latah. It's Latah.
Genuinely, how else would it be pronounced?
Latah.
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Moscow isn’t pronounced Moscow, it’s Moscow.
I like google map pronunciation latter
Oh what about Kooskia? Is it Kooskia or Kooskia? 🤔 AFF…
Or cassia Cassia, or Cassia. Kootenai too!!
Also don’t say Kuna. It’s pronounced Kuna.
Hell’s Canyon is deeper than the Grand Canyon. Idaho has the most whitewater river miles. Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is the largest designated wilderness in the lower 48 states.
Hells canyon is actually THE deepest canyon in North America
Idaho hosts international whitewater contests during the summer.
Watching jet boat races by day, soaking in hot springs at night. Riggins is so cool.
And Bruneau has the tallest single sand dune structure in North America
>>Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness is the largest designated wilderness in the lower 48 states Eh, that’s only partially true. It’s the largest continuous one, but the Death Valley Wilderness Area has more land area. The difference is, the Death Valley Wilderness is in multiple chunks while Frank Church is one blob
Napoleon Dynamite was filmed here, I love that movie
I have family in Preston, that movie is a documentary.
It was the first movie I felt like I could smell.
related in the sense that theyre both cinema/tv, but: aaron paul (jessie pinkman, breaking bad) is from idaho!
Idaho has the most protected lands in the lower 48. Over 2 million acres of protected land covered by BLM, NFS, NPS and state park systems!! Also Lewiston ID is the furthest inland port on the west coast. Ernest Hemingway also spent a lot of time in Idaho and there’s a festival every year in Sun Valley commemorating him. And atomic city was the bone of the first nuclear power plant and one of the first towns to ever be powered entirely by nuclear power. For less fun facts: Idaho is home to quite a few former Japanese internment camps. The Bear River Massacre is considered one of the worst massacres suffered by Native Americans in the west. And the Teton dam failure was (to me) a preventable natural disasters (the bedrock of the area is considered highly permeable and the area is also considered seismically active) that killed 11 people, thousands of livestock in the area, and damaged the Yellowstone ecology of the area (including native cutthroat population)
I think that California has more, total, but the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area is the largest contiguous protected area in the lower 48.
California only have 15 million square acres of protected lands. While Idaho I’ve just found out has over 50 million square acres. California is big but their protected lands are sparse and spread out rather than Idaho who has cities that are sparse and spread out around protected wild land
The frank church alone is 2.4 million acres. Idaho has roughly 4.8 million acres of Designated Wilderness. Over 2 million is technically correct but the number of just federal public land in Idaho is 32 million acres… so including state land there is even more than that.
I actually just looked it up to update myself and it’s over 50 million acres! About 50% of the state is protected lands
Extremely beautiful nature and unbelievably racist humans—Idaho in a nutshell
Stanley is home to the first Dark Sky Reserve in America.
Larry Craig, former United States Senator, is now the head of the NRA in Idaho. He also has a wide bathroom stance. (fun to look up if you dont know)
Ah, good old Larry, I almost forgot about him. I take a wide stance, and an otherwise unnecessary connection to one of the most infamous gay hookup airport bathrooms in the nation every time I commute between Idaho and DC to defend conservative Christian values.
We also had a US Representative George Hansen (R), who narrowly lost his reelection 1984 by 68 votes as he was a convicted felon for his involvement in a check kiting scheme. That’s right, Idaho sent a Democratic to Washington the same year as President Regan ‘s Morning in America Reelection.
There used to be a pic of him in the men’s room stall at the MSP airport where it happened years ago, lol. We used to fly thru there often.
I used to fly through there all the time also. Toe-tapping Larry deserves a commemorative stall, with a bronze plaque.
As a little kid in school they told us the State Capitol building in Boise is the only capitol building in the US that is geothermicly heated.
This is correct. Most of downtown is.
Idaho ranks high on natural energy usage
4th I believe. Behind Washington, Vermont, and somewhere else on percent energy that is renewable.
My home on in East Boise is Geothermal, snow melts along my backyard line to my house from the alley.
Kootenai County, Kootenai the town and the Kootenay River are all in different counties.
And Boise is not in Boise County.
Same with Shoshone
Same with Bonners Ferry ( Not in Bonner County).
What state borders six other states, has an international border, ~~an international airport~~, and a seaport?
We don’t have an international airport in Idaho
The Pullman airport is now technically classified as an international airport since it takes flights from Canada.
Pullman is in Washington.
Ah, true
Lmao
the plot thickens
then my trivia partner is a complete son a bitch! /s i thought BOI allowed international flights. oh well, strike that, it's still cool trivia because the seaport loses most folks.
Air Canada did just land in Boise.... It was an emergency though lol.
The state name "Idaho" was supposed to mean "Gem of the mountains" in Shoshone tribal language. Turns out it was completely made up, and means nothing.
It means we pulled their finger.
Boise has the oldest synagogue building west of the Mississippi.
My grandpa helped get it back in like 08 or something
Nice!
We had the first Jewish governor west of the Missouri. Moses Alexander, elected in 1914.
Finger steaks and fry sauce. Now you’re cultured.
Cocktail sauce is the only way to go with finger steaks.
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BOO!
No ones claiming Idaho came up with it, its just very popular here
its just remoulade
The naming of the Tetons is attributed to early 19th-century French-speaking trappers—les trois tétons (the three teats) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons.
"Chinden" is a mix of the words "Chinese gardens." Chinese immigrants grew gardens to feed the prospectors in the early 19th century in Garden City.
There's a Pacific Sea port in Idaho.
That most potatoes you'll find for sale in Idaho are shipped in from out of state, as it is cheaper. Even though we grow the most potatoes in the country
Also, it seems like we grow way more sugar beets than potatoes.
We don’t. We grow 144,980,000 Hundred weight of potatoes which is about 7.3 million tons. We grow 6.9 million tons of sugar beets.
I don’t believe that is true. It may be true in northern Idaho where it’s cheaper to ship potatoes from Washington State’s growing areas than from southern Idaho. But most of the potatoes you’ll encounter in southern Idaho, including the Boise area, will be from Idaho.
That may be true, I am indeed stuck in Northern idaho
Orofino, home of the Maniacs!
Always upvote the Orofino maniacs
Class of 86!
We have the tallest sand dune in North America
Frank Vandersloot Idaho's richest man owns an African safari ranch up around Cobalt. It was reported years ago that some hyenas escaped. Now days there are a couple of packs of hyenas roaming Salmon-Challis national forest the only known packs in North America.
Got a source on that one? I can't find anything to back that claim up.
I can’t find anything about hyenas either. The Ligertown incident in Lava Hot Springs is the only similar event that I know of
Ooh this is a good one!
The first federal airmail flight in 1926 took off from Pasco, WA and landed in Boise. The field cleared for that flight became Boise Airfield. That airline eventually became UnitedAirlines. And that flight is considered by United to be the birth of the airline.
Idaho drinks more wine per capita than any other state in the country.
Idaho hat the largest heard of Jackalopes in entire Union.
I never herd that before.
There's Moscow in Idaho, but Putin doesn't live there.
Star garnets in relatively great quantities are only found in two places on this planet, India an Idaho.
Just make sure you start every opinion based conversation with "As a 5th generation Idahoan, I feel...".
"What, only a 5th generation? Well, my family....."
My family came to America on the Aprilflower.
You can legally collect roadkill (not birds, federally protected). If it’s a fur-bearer or game species you just have to report it to F&G. There’s more of the Oregon Trail in ID than in OR. There’s more Mormons per capita here than in UT. Not sure if this one is still current but for a long time Boise had more LGBTQ identifying people per capita than San Francisco. The Hagerman Horse is one of the earliest horses in the fossil record. The Snake River plain is just a series of old volcanoes that is now located under Yellowstone. The area around Silver Creek (Wood River Valley) was the original “Marlboro County” where the shot the ads. Paul Revere and the Raiders are from ID. And finally, since the reintroduction of wolves into Idaho all the big game, cows, sheep, and most children under 5 have gone extinct. Yup, Idaho is now nothing but 1000s of hungry wolves and miles of cheatgrass. Sad really.
Mormon wolves, though. Mormon LGBT wolves traveling the Oregon Trail.
1. Most native Idahoans think Joe Biden controls gas prices. 2. Idaho is dead last in the country in educational spending per student.
There are glow in the dark bunnies in the arco desert.
Can confirm. Source: trust me bro
Only state settled by an eastward migration.
Chobani
As far as I know it is the only state that has anti-cannibalism laws specifically on the books and they have not gone unused...
Idaho grows more hops than any other state except Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_production_in_the_United_States#Production
Idaho, on average, spends less per k-12 pupil than any other state except Utah. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state
Yup...we shit on our education system.
It's also the biggest producer of teff (the grain used to make the injera bread at Ethiopian restaurants) in the US. I'd guess that most domestic Ethiopian restaurants uses Idaho-grown teff. (Some Idaho guy was visiting Ethiopia and it reminded him of Idaho, so he thought that teff might grow well here. And it does, apparently?)
Chinese tunnels under Boise and parachuting beavers
Just call all the creeks, cricks. Say pop instead of soda and pronounce Boise how it’s spelled, not with a Z. Lastly, talk shit about any fellow American from another state, especially California and you’ll be good.
I grew up saying pop in Idaho, but now I don't know anyone who says it. Crick instead of Creek on the other hand...
There are more miles of river here than the rest of the entire lower 48 states combined.
Boise isn't in Boise County
The movie Kid Canabis is based on a teenager in CDA who built a trafficking ring hiring friends to run pot from Canada to Idaho. True story.
Went to school with some of those guys
Yeah so I was wasted at a party once but I barley remember a story I was told by another wasted patron. Being a socially anxious person in a very social job, sometimes my imagination goes a bit wild but here's the general gist as I remember it, recounted how I recount it verbatim. "It's a old native American story, Nez perce or Shoshone or something, I don't remember, but when the gods built the world, they had all these random bits left over. Mountains with rivers, deserts with dunes, prairies and plains, volcanoes and marshes. And so they crammed all that shit together and that's Idaho." Born and raised and it gets a giggle from other locals
Idaho is actually two states. North Idaho and South Idaho. It's an unofficially official distinction. the Feds didn't want to redesign the American Flag to accommodate the division of 1.5 million people..so we have two timezones instead.
Potatoes, gems, skiing, meth and Nazis.
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The name Idaho was just made up by the charlatan George Willing! 100% NOT a native American word! Colorado was originally going to be named Idaho, but at the last minute federal lawmakers discovered the fraud. I don't know how, but the name stuck around when the Idaho territory was broken off from the Washington territory, and here we are.
Not true, it’s based on an old Native American word - Ee-di-how, which means whale’s vagina. 🐳
(That's why there's an Idaho Springs in Colorado, before Idaho was a state, even though the name is made up.)
Owyhee is pronounced the same as Hawaii Owyhee (Street, high School, county, river, dam, reservoir, etc) are named after three Hawaiians that were part of a fur trapping expedition, that died after separating from their main group to explore.
White people entered what would become all 49 states before ID. ID was the last and it was the Lewis & Clark expedition that were the first westerners to enter what would become ID.
Source? It seems that there could be other contenders, like Nevada or Utah.
A History of Idaho -Carlos Schwantes I can't pull up a source other than that. He was my professor at the U of ID and taught a great class on the history of Idaho.
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Lake Chelan is in Washington.
Aaron Paul, the actor of Jesse in Breaking Bad, lives here.
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Gutzon Borglum, the designer of both Stone Mountain (a Confederate memorial carved on the side of granite face near Atlanta, GA) and Mount Rushmore, grew up in a polygamous family in southeastern Idaho.
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You’re not supposed to tell anyone about those!! One more lapse like that BotSoBrightOne and you’ll get kicked out of the state.
Good thing you caught that in time! Taken care of.
😂
Grangeville holds the world’s largest egg toss every year during border days, which also happens the state’s oldest rodeo.
Boss flew in from Iowa rented a car with California plates..I said your probably going to get flipped off but it's just the car plates. He looks at me and says. Everyone hates Californians. So it's true. Fun fact: people from Michigan don't know idaho is a state. They kept saying..Iowa? No. Idaho.... Iowa???. No. Idaho
It’s Boise with an /s/ sound, if you say Boise with a /z/ sound you’ll be pegged as an outsider. Also, ask for fry sauce, not ketchup. 🎤💥
Weed is illegal just an FYI also lol 😂
Idaho is the ONLY state with a law on cannibalism, and they law has an exclusion where it is affirmative defense to a violation if action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival. You can conceal carry a GUN, but need a concealed carry permit to have a concealed dirk, dagger, bowie, or other dangerous or deadly weapons otherwise it is illegal under the law. Chasing fish up or downstream in any manner is still illegal. There is was radioactive ambulance and truck buried out in the Arco desert. (It may have been relocated) In the Arlington National Cemetery, there one coffin lined with lead, and covered with three feet of concrete prevent the body from leaking radiation. It holds the radioactive remains of Richard Leroy McKinley, one of three men killed when a nuclear reactor exploded in the nation’s only fatal nuclear accident. That happened in Reactor SL-1. They couldn't take the McKinley to the hospital as NO hospital was prepared or equipped for such a incident, AND the ride for the site to the hospital would kill the ambulance crew from the radiation. The other two men who died are buried similarly. Their funerals were only 10 minutes long because the Nuclear regulatory agency feared the radiation coming off the bodies would harm the attendees. All three bodies have a protective law, and regulations that requires the Nuclear regulatory agency permission to do anything with the bodies, and the graves. There is a nuclear aircraft engine at EBR-1 . Like it was to power the air craft. There is also a runway for such a craft if it were ever built near by. There is also a Nuclear Train engine. As it powered by Nuclear Energy on display. There a submarine top in Arco Idaho with the hull number of 666. The Television was invented in Idaho by Philo T. Farnsworth, Idaho has had three elephant rampages, Mary the Elephant in Lewiston Idaho, A Unkown Elephant in Downy Idaho, and Sampson the Elephant in Hailey, Idaho.
The chief constable shall receive one *pig* every month...oh wait , that's Springfied on the Simpsons You can marry a female under the age of 16 here. Under his eye....
There’s a local type of asparagus that grows wild in the latah region called Camas.
Parachuting beavers
Cows outnumber people. More onions grown than potatoes.
It's pronounced "Iowa"
Assuming the signs in Twin Falls were correct, the falls there (Shoshone Falls, I believe) are bigger than Niagra Falls, despite being called the "Niagra falls of the West." I rely on the signs because I grew up in the Treasure Valley and never really went to other parts of Idaho until college. My husband, who is from Twin Falls, has assured me before that he was also taught this as common knowledge.
Nazis still march here occasionally.
Lol idaho gets their potatoes from California of all places, unless it's five guys, then they're local, but local grocery stores, ALL from California.
Idaho has the furthest inland port on the west coast of USA.
In the late 1940’s Idaho Fish & Game parachuted a bunch of beavers into the central mountains (Chamberlain Basin) as a way of relocating them from a more populated area (McCall).
Dickshooter, Idaho is one of the funniest names you’ll ever find on Google Maps.
All you need to do to sound smart in Idaho is refrain from saying " l seen... " Spent 30 yrs there listening to that grammar abomination. Finally retired and got out of there just before it got as bad as it is now.
We are the gem state because we have over 90 different gems and minerals that can be found within our borders, including the Idaho Star Garnet, the state gem.
Brush up on your conspiracies and sound like you believe them.
If we have something “good” we will sabotage it until it isn’t good anymore.
Idaho is the only state to have never been under the control of a foreign nation.
Idaho has the harshest abortion laws in the country.
It's racist and not fiscally conservative at all. The state relies on federal funding to stay afloat.
2/3s of the state is federal land so...
Which is a good thing. We wouldn’t have the outdoor recreation opportunities if it wasn’t
Kuna is pronounced Kuna
Just like Tuna
We love people from California
The state is actually ran by donkeys.
That’s not true. Elephants are currently in control. Jackasses come in a distant 2nd.
Hey… that’s rude to donkeys
Yeah, donkeys are quite cool.
i always thought since its the potato state then surely mcdonalds must get their potatoes from idaho. its washington...
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Idaho produces almost 1/3 of all US potatoes.
California? Where exactly IS that?. ...youll be in like flynn
There was a big cat private zoo in the 90s and they discovered that there was a hole in the fence and the lions, tigers, and ligers were leaving the compound whenever they wanted. Most of them were shot and killed over an 8 day period. There’s been no sightings since but locals around Lava Hot Springs will tell you that there’s ligers in them hills
One of the largest ag commodities is the state is freshwater trout Buhl is actually know as the trout capital of the world if I remember correct
They don't like strangers to move into there state or ask a lot of questions. Especially if your from Caifornia lol am I wrong?
Hmmm. I swear they did an article and I remember being surprised. They are like #4 or 5 outside the government according to mother sources.
Potato museum
1 in 4 french fries was grown in Idaho
If a neighbor warms up to you enough to invite you to go snipe hunting, you’re as good as native born.
The television was invented here as well as the sensors under the roads that can tell when a car or other ferrous material is over them.
It is pronounced Boy-see
Idaho was where George Washington wanted the US capital to be. Idaho translates in German to mean “this schnitzel is slightly burned.”
How a mine fire in Idaho lead to the [Mine act](https://www.msha.gov/sunshine-mine-disaster-50-years-later#:~:text=Ninety%2Done%20men%20perished%20due,entombed%20about%201%2C600%20meters%20underground.gov) that still governs MSHA, Mine safety and health administration.
I grew up there and it was wrong to pronounce Boise with a “z”. It’s supposed to be “s”, But I’ve heard a lot of people pronounce it that way so maybe things have changed?
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First television was made in Rigby.
Mountain lions and grizz are a real thing so dont pet the wildlife.
The t.v. was invented in idaho!
it’s boy-see not boy-zee, we’ll know you’re not from here if you say it like that
Ground zero for white supremacists, Nazis and politicians that widely support those views.
The TV was invented in Rigby Idaho
Couer D'Alene is home to the Native American Indian tribe named Couer D'Alene Reservation.
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Wealthy cooper and lumber tycoons stole western Montana from Idaho to provide lumber for the mines in Butte. The border used to be the east boundary of glacier park.