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The top 5 happiest states and the top 5 unhappiest states

The top 5 happiest states are:

Hawaii
Alaska
South Dakota
Maine
Colorado

The top e 5 unhappiest state are:

West Virginia
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Indiana
Arkansas

The website based its rankings on a wide range of factors that tend to be correlated with overall well-being, such as income, poverty rates, obesity and teen pregnancy rates, access to healthy food, crime rates and college attainment rates.

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Winter in my home state of South Dakota

...thanks to Twila Bauer for the photo

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'In God We Trust' became our National Motto 60 years ago today

60 years ago today, President Eisenhower signed legislation officially making “In God We Trust” our national motto.

In 1955, Eisenhower signed a bill that mandated all U.S. currency and coins bear the inscription "In God We Trust," but it wasn't officially adopted as the national motto until one year later.

Before that, there was no official motto in the U.S.

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A controversial $90 million Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky

If they build it will they come?

The Ark Encounter, featuring a 510-foot-long replica of Noah's Ark, is expected to open in Williamstown, Kentucky in July, but don't go expecting to see pair after pair of animals.

Instead, there will be a petting zoo, as well as a future expansion with a first-century Middle Eastern village and a Tower of Babel.

The group behind the attraction, Answers in Genesis, is a "young Earth creationist group," The Guardian reports, meaning it believes that God created the Earth in six days about 6,000 years ago.

So far, they have raised $23.5 million in donations to go towards the $90 million price tag. When all is said and done, the group said the ark "should become the largest timber-frame structure in the USA," and will see 1.6 million visitors in the first year.

The Ark Encounter is affiliated with the Creation Museum 45 minutes away, which has a Garden of Eden area where "children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden's rivers."

Ticket prices:
1-day ticket to Ark Encounter
Adult: $40
Senior: $31
Child: $28
Parking pass not included

Doesn’t seem like it was more than 40 years ago

Cause of deaths in America

Most deaths in America are caused by:

About 1.3 million Americans die in road crashes each year.

About 600,000 Americans die of cancer each year.

Last year, over 47,000 Americans died from drug overdoses.

About 30,000 Americans are killed each year by gunfire including accidental deaths and suicides.

What is the longest one syllable English word?

The longest one syllable English word is scraunched.

Did you ever hear anyone use the word? Few people have.

To scraunch is to make a crushing or crackling noise.

Wienermobile made with Lego’s

Minifigs lined up to buy hot dogs.

More than 2 feet of snow in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

What was supposed to be a few inches of snow on Friday turned into a deluge that blanketed parts of Sioux Falls in more than 2 feet of the white stuff and caused travel headaches throughout the city.

Fourteen inches of snow was reported in the southwest part of the city by Friday evening, the National Weather Service office said. On the other side of town, Sioux Falls Regional Airport (Joe Foss Field) recorded 7.1 inches by 6 p.m.

Two feet of snow at one time was not that uncommon when I was growing up in Sioux Falls.

Church sign describes a dyslexic atheist