Portal:Arkansas/Did you know

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  • ...that dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
  • ...that St. Louis Southwestern locomotive #819, one of a group of five 4-8-4 locomotives approved by the United States federal wartime administration for construction by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (more commonly known as the "Cotton Belt Route"), was the last engine built by the railway and the last locomotive built in Arkansas to date?
  • ...that Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas?