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Oklahoma Trivia; Bit's-n-Pieces

5 Largest Employers:

1.) State of Oklahoma 35,000

2.) Tinker Air Force Base 25,000

3.) Oklahoma Health Center 13,000

4.) OKC Public Schools 5,000

5.) FAA 5,000

Average Annual Wage:

Oklahoma City-$23,865 United States-$29,814

The Great Outdoors:

Oklahoma has short, mild winters and well over 300 days of sunshine per year. The State has more lakes, providing more miles of shorelines than the east coast and west coast combined.

Oklahoma has 77,000 acres in parks and recreation areas.

Oklahoma has more than 175 golf courses statewide with more currently under construction.

Population:

United States 248,765,170 (million)

Oklahoma 3,145,576

Oklahoma City 472,220

Native Oklahoma:

On November 16, 1907, the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory joined and became the 46th state.

The Land Run created Oklahoma City in a single day. By nightfall, 10,000 pioneers had staked claims.

The name "Oklahoma" comes from two Choctaw words: "okla" which means people and "humma" which means red. So the state's name means "red people".

Oklahoma has the largest Indian population of any state in the Union. Descendants from the original 67 tribes living in Indian Territory still live in Oklahoma.

Thirty -five of the Indian tribes currently living in Oklahoma are headquartered in the state.

Oklahoma had the first flowing oil well in the world.

The capitol building is the only capitol building in the world with an oil well under it.

Oklahoma had the first Boy Scout troop in America-1909

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