North Dakota Fun Facts
January Average Temperature: 9°
July Average Temperature: 70°
North Dakota's State Fruit is the chokecherry, and the state beverage is milk.
The town of Rugby is recognized as the geographical center of North America.
Dakota Gasification Company in Beulah is the nation's only synthetic natural gas producer.
In 1982, Rutland hosted a celebration when the town won a spot in the "Guinness Book of World Records" with the cooking and eating of the World's Largest Hamburger. That year, between 8,000 and 10,000 people came to sample the tasty 3,591-pound burger.
The average life expectancy in North Dakota is 78.3 years
North Dakota is often considered the nation's most prodigious energy producer, with one of the world's largest deposits of lignite coal, a piece of the largest oil reserve the U.S. Geological Survey has ever studied in the continental United States, a vast supply of farmland that can be used to produce biofuels, and enough wind energy potential to power more than a quarter of the United States.
Agriculture is the state’s number one industry. North Dakota leads the nation in the production of 12 different crops.
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