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1. World's Largest Ball of Twine: Started by Frank Stoeber in 1953, the World's Largest Ball of Twine now weighs in at almost nine tons and is compri...  
2. Jayhawks: Nickname for the University of Kansas athletic teams. KU is known for its basketball program, but has done increasi...  
3. KU: A common acronym (albeit in reverse order) for the University of Kansas. The reverse ordering of the letters helps ...  
4. Air Capital of the World: Wichita is known as the "Air Capital of the World." Wichita is home to a number of aircraft companies, including Bo...  
5. White Castle: White Castle is the fast food burger chain infamous for its hamburgers called "sliders". It was founded in Wichita ...  
6. Dust Bowl: Yes, that was a devastating dust storm
7. Black blizzards: A term for the massive dust storms suffered in the Southern Plains in the 1930s.
8. Rabbit drive: In the 1930s in the Dust Bowl, thousands of jackrabbits came out of the hills to the towns and farms in the area. L...
9. Dust pneumonia: a disorder caused by exposure to dust storms within the 1930s  
10. Black Sunday: April 14, 1935. On this day, the worst dust storm was said to hit the Dust Bowl in the Southern Plains. Winds were ...
11. Okies: People who left Oklahoma, heading west for better farming conditions or better lives. This word expanded to all tho...
12. ToPikachu: In 1998, Topeka Mayor Joan Wagnon renamed the Kansas capital "ToPikachu" for a day as part of a promotional event t...  
13. Google, Kansas: Google, Kansas: One small step up from "Topikachu"  
 
 
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In 1998, Topeka Mayor Joan Wagnon renamed the Kansas capital "ToPikachu" for a day as part of a promotional event to mark Pokémon's debut in the United States. Even now, it's hard to think of Topeka without thinking of ToPikachu.

1. Going Great White is a funny mockumentary filmed in Oregon, WI by two Oregonians, Frank G Caruso and Frank X Sommers. Done in the same style as "Best in Show," "Going Great White" pokes fun at the world of Multi-Level Marketing with an over-the-top depiction of a fictional company, ONITRAC. Throughout the film, a camera crew follows around a number of different characters who try to push ONITRAC on family, friends, and co-workers in hopes of winning an award at the upcoming national convention. There are many laughs to be had with this one. However, if you're a multi-level marketer yourself, you might not find it funny.

2. Awesome mockumentary about ONITRAC, a fictional MLM scheme that is frighteningly similar to real MLM schemes. It is a little over-the-top, but unfortunately its portrayal of the pyramid scheme world isn't too far from reality.

Citywide catastrophe rumored to have been started by the "O'Leary cow." As legend goes, the O'Leary cow kicked over a lantern in the O'Leary farm which started to spread throughout the city. Every building in the city, which was made out of wood then, was either damaged or destroyed with the exception of the Water Tower which stands to this day.

An infamous legal trial that took place in Phoenix in the 1960s, a complicated fiasco involving an inheritance and "scientific proof" for the existence of a human soul.