Capital- Jefferson City

Major Cities- Kansas, St Louis, Springfield, Columbia, Independence, Joplin

Some Interesting Facts about Missouri

- The University of Missouri is the first college in the world to offer a journalism degree

- Kansas City, Missouri is only second to Rome in volume of fountains

- Louis, Missouri is home to the real site that inspired the movie “The Exorcist”

- Missouri is home to four Nobel prize winners: Jack Kilby (Physics, 2000), Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry, 2006), T.S. Eliot (Literature, 1948) and Steven Chu (Physics, 1997).

- Louis, Missourihosted the first Olympic games held in the United States in the summer of 1904.

- The capital Jefferson City was named for Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.

- Missouri is known as the Cave State and is thought to have more than 6,000 caves.

- Ice cream cones made from waffles were first invented in St. Louis at the World’s Fair when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups. The vendor asked a waffle vendor to roll waffles to hold the ice cream, and created one of the most loved sweet treats in the world.

- The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis also introduced cotton candy and Dr Pepper to the world

- Iced tea was invented at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, when Richard Blechyden, served tea with ice for the first time.

- Brad Pitt is probably the most famous of the celebrities from Missouri. He grew up in Springfield, about two hours and 45 minutes south of Kansas City, Missouri and spent a few years at Mizzou (University of Missouri-Columbia).

- Famous rapper Eminem was born in St. Joseph and lived in Missouri until he was 11.

Some Interesting Facts about Missouri’s Economy

- Major industries include aerospace, transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, printing/publishing, electrical equipment, light manufacturing, financial services and beerThe largest companies by employment in Missouri are Walmart, BJC Health Care and Mercy Inc

- The agriculture products of the state are beef, soybeans, pork, dairy products, hay, corn, poultry, sorghum, cotton, rice, and eggs.

- Missouri has vast quantities of limestone. Other resources mined are lead, coal, and crushed stone.

- Missouri produces the most lead of all the states

- Missouri also has a growing science, agricultural technology, and biotechnology field. Monsanto, formerly one of the largest biotech companies in America, was based in Louis until it was acquired by Bayer AG in 2018.

- Missouri has the largest beer-producing plant in the United States. Did you know that the maker of Budweiser beer (the Anheuser-Busch company) is in St. Louis?

Best Universities to Consider in Missouri

Washington University in St. Louis

S Louis University

University of Missouri

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University of Missouri, St Louis

Webster University

Missouri State University

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