26-30 Oregon Facts
26. Portland, Oregon has more strip clubs per capita than any city in the country, has more microbreweries inside their city limits than any city in the world, has the smallest city park of any city in the world. – Source
27. A bartender from Oregon won $17.500 in the lottery after a customer tipped him with a lottery ticket. He tried to give it back but the customer lets him have the money. – Source
28. In May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”. – Source
29. Its illegal to pump your own gas in Oregon. – Source
30. Oregon is the only U.S. state with a 2-sided flag. – Source
31-35 Oregon Facts
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31. Oregon gave U.S. college football Heisman winner Marcus Mariota a scholarship after watching him play at one football camp despite him never starting a varsity game and being relatively unknown. – Source
32. In 1968, a student at Oregon University turned up to every class in a black bag and sat at the back of the room in silence. At first, the student was treated with hostility, then curiosity before final friendship. This is known as the mere-exposure effect. – Source
33. Since Paul G. Lind of Portland, Oregon, loved to play Scrabble so much, his family and friends decided to have a Scrabble-themed tombstone made just for him when he died in 2005. – Source
34. A photographer found 3,500 corroded copper canisters containing unclaimed human remains while exploring an abandoned outbuilding of the Oregon State Hospital complex. – Source
35. A reservoir in Portland, Oregon had to be flushed of 38 million gallons of water after a 19-year-old peed into it. – Source
36-40 Oregon Facts
36. In 1914, the Governor of Oregon sent his personal secretary Fern Hobbs to a rural town defying prohibition laws. Local officials decorated the town with bunting, ribbons, and flowers to greet her. She arrested them and declared martial law for the first time in Oregon since the Civil War. – Source
37. There are more marijuana shops in Oregon than Starbucks and McDonald’s. – Source
38. Oregon is the only state where a citizen can issue a traffic citation. You have to be able to identify the driver and you have to appear in court to testify in support of the citation. – Source
39. Nike’s Oregon Project is a group created by Nike, wherein runners live and train in Portland, Oregon in a specially designed house where filters are used to remove oxygen from the air to develop more red blood cells, increasing athletic performance. – Source
40. The town of Monmouth, Oregon has peacocks since 1997 and they’ve grown to be a problem. – Source