The term Ohio is derived from the Seneca phrase for “big or lovely river,” which was used by the Iroquois tribe to refer to the Ohio River.¹⁾

Ohio was not legally recognized as a state until 1953, despite the fact that President Thomas Jefferson accepted it into the Union in 1803.²⁾

Ohio's state capital shifted three times in less than ten years before settling on Columbus in 1812.³⁾

William Henry Harrison, John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Neil Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and John D. Rockefeller are all famous Ohioans.⁴⁾

Ohio has some of Hollywood's most famous citizens, including Steven Spielberg, Doris Day, Clark Gable, Bob Hope, Rob Lowe, Paul Newman, and Martin Sheen.⁵⁾

“Hang On Sloopy” has been recognized as Ohio's official state rock song.⁶⁾

The state motto of Ohio is “With God, All Things Are Possible”.⁷⁾

Twins from all over the country attend the annual Twins Day Celebration in Twinsburg, Ohio.⁸⁾

The Festival of Fish, Twins Day Festival, Grape Jamboree, Rock and Soul Festival, Ohio Scottish Game Weekend, and Ashtabula County Covered Bridge Festival are among Ohio's many yearly events.⁹⁾

Cedar Point, located in Sandusky, Ohio, has been dubbed the “Roller Coaster Capitol of the World” because to its 18 roller coasters.¹⁰⁾

The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 1997 arguing that Ohio's motto, “With God All Things Are Possible”, constituted an unlawful promotion of religion, but the action was rejected and Ohio kept its slogan.¹¹⁾

From 1977 to 1978, Jerry Springer, the notorious presenter of The Jerry Springer Show, was the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.¹²⁾

Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, was handed a lifetime suspension from Major League Baseball in 1989 for illegally wagering on his own team.¹³⁾

The house used in the production of 1980's cult hit A Christmas Story in Cleveland, Ohio, was acquired 21 years later by an entrepreneur who spent $150,000 for the property on eBay and transformed it into a museum celebrating the film.¹⁴⁾

Dave Thomas built the first Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, where he resided with his eight-year-old daughter, Wendy.¹⁵⁾

Cleveland's 21,000-acre Metroparks, comprised of 18 separate parks and reservations, is more than double the size of New York City's Central Park.¹⁶⁾

It has been an annual tradition at the Ohio State Fair since 1903 to showcase a life-size butter sculpture of a cow and calf.¹⁷⁾

Golf became a considerably more popular sport in the early twentieth century, owing to Cleveland, Ohio, golfer Coburn Haskell and Bertram G. Work of the B.F. Goodrich Company's creation of the rubber golf ball.¹⁸⁾

The National Football League was founded in Canton, Ohio in 1920 at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto company.¹⁹⁾

Miller Henry Parsons Crowell started the Quaker Oats business in Ohio in 1877.²⁰⁾

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Ohio, near the birthplace of the NFL.²¹⁾