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10 Mississippians have won a total of 13 Pulitzer Prizes with three winning it twice.
Mississippi was the first state to ratify the 18th ammendment - Prohibition - and has yet to ratify the 21st ammendment which repealed prohibition !
Oliver Pollock : inventor of the dollar symbol [ $ ] is buried near Pickneyville and was the largest individual financial contributor to the American War for Independence .
The worlds first transoceanic flight was made in 1928 by Iuka native H.T. Merrell to England in a plane loaded with ping pong balls .
In WW II more Mississippians won the Congressional Medal of Honor than servicemen from any other state.
Sergeant Major Lawerence Kennedy USARet from Amory holds the most number [62 ] of military medals in the history of the military including 4 Legions of Merit
The first can of evaporated condensed milk was produced in Liberty by Gail Borden in 1856 .
The first bottle of Dr. Tichener's antiseptic was also produced in Liberty.
Coca-Cola was first bottled and sold in Vicksburg by a young candy merchant , Joseph A. Biedenharn in the summer of 1894.
Pine-Sol was invented by Harry Cole , Sr. from Jackson.
The worlds only cactus plantation is near Edwards and has over 3000 varieties.
Mississippi has the second oldest yacht club in Pass Christian Yacht Club organized in 1849 [ only 5 years younger than the NYC yacht club - the oldest in the country].
Did you know that the " Teddy Bear " originated in Mississippi in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunt in Sharkey County and refused to shoot a bear captured by his guide, Mississippian Holt Collier. It became Teddy's Bear to become the world famous toy Teddy Bear.
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