12285

# The highest double track railroad bridge in the world, the Kate Shelley Bridge, is located at Boone.

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12286

# Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.

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12287

# The famous actor John Wayne was born in Winterset on May 26, 1907.

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12288

# Iowa State University is the oldest land grant college in the U.S.A

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12289

# Decorah hosts Nordic Fest a three-day celebration of Decorah's Scandinavian heritage.

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12290

# The National Balloon Museum in Indianola chronicles more than 200 years of ballooning history.

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12291

# Sheldon High School Summer Theatre, the only high school repertory in Iowa and one of just a few in the nation presents a different play for each week in June and July.

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12292

Cary Grant died November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa after suffering a stroke before performing his one-man show "An Evening With Cary Grant" at the Adler Theater.

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12293

Don Ameche is buried in an unmarked grave in Dubuque, Iowa.

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12294

U.S. Senators from Iowa, Charles Grassley and Tom Harkin have both appeared as themselves in major motion pictures.

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12295

Musician Buddy Holly died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959

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12296

Alex Carras, of TV's Webster, played football for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and was on the 1956 Rose Bowl championship team.

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12297

Ashton Kutcher was an engineering student at the University of Iowa before dropping out to pursue a career in modeling.

(And now he is Demi Moore's beau - and she makes fun of skip's shirt)

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12298

James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum attended the Univesity of Iowa

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12299

Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Newton, Iowa.

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