
Random Oklahoma Fact: Oklahoma is known as the "Sooner State" in fact during most football games you will see a "sooner schooner" driven across the field. The nickname comes from the land run of 1889. Settlers flocked to the state line of the then Oklahoma territory. At a certain date after midnight settlers could come across the territory line and claim up to 160 arches of land. So of course thousands of people lined up on the territory line to wait for the signal. But as my dad puts it
"well some people just came sooner so that's why it's called the sooner state."
So the state nickname came from a bunch of cheaters.
And that is all I have to say about that.
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