11 Surprising Things About Ohio That Will Make You Bite Your Bottom Lip

Everybody knows Ohio is round at both ends and H-I in the middle. But you probably didn’t know these 11 interesting things about the Buckeye State.

1.Every winter moose from Canada swim across Lake Erie and spend December through March playing poker and pinochle in Cleveland.

2.Ohio was the first state to allow medical marijuana as an acceptable substance to help get through medical school.

3.Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati all begin with the letter C because early pioneers had not learned any letters past C. It wasn’t until later settlers with higher education arrived that they named Dayton and other towns that started with the letter D onwards.

4.More circus jugglers have been born in Ohio than any other state. Perhaps the most famous is Ira “Juggles” McFierster who juggled the letters o,h,i,o in his famous act at the turn of last century.

5.Ohioans invented the selfie stick, the selfie stapler and the selfie face punch.

6.Ohio was the first state in the Union to establish the right of all citizens to yell loudly at home team refs when they get an obviously cheap call against their squad.

7.Ohio has it’s own money made up of buckettes, nicklettes, dibucks, buckbucks and thousandgreys.

8.Ohio is a leader in bullet trains with a line that runs from Cleveland to Cincinnati and back, stopping long enough in Columbus to collect politicians trying to get out of town to escape angry citizens.

9.The word Ohio comes from the Apache Indian phrase, “Oh, hi! Yo, you got that twenty I lent you?”

10.Ohioans are known for being friendly, efficient and deadly with a meat cleaver in close quarter combat.

11.The Wright Brothers invented airplanes as a way to get away from their wives and families and have a little peace riding the air.