SOUTH DAKOTA: Each year, the tiny town of Clark celebrates Potato Day. It features a Best Decorated Potato Contest, a Potato Dish Cooking Contest, and a Mashed Potato Wrestling Contest.

TENNESSEE: Mountain Dew was originally invented there as a mixer to cut the acrid taste of homemade moonshine. Pepsi later bought the recipe in 1964.

TEXAS: The King Ranch in South Texas is larger than the state of Rhode Island, covering 1,289 square miles.

And just because everything is bigger in Texas (and it’s my home state), here’s another fun fact: The U.S. has three power grids: One for the East, one for the West, and one for Texas.

UTAH: Utahans eat twice the amount of lime green Jell-O as the rest of the US population. (A popular way to consume the treat in Utah is to add shredded carrots to the mix.)