Georgia Facts

In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.

In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost somewhere along the swampy coast of Georgia. Its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.

In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.

Five University of Georgia Kappa Alpha Theta sisters pulled over on a rural Georgia road on March 15, 2024, when they spotted Cori Craft's SUV sinking into Brier Creek - wading in, freeing her and both sons, then watching Clarke Jones drop to her knees and perform CPR on a four-year-old whose lips had turned blue. About a minute and a half later, he opened his mouth and started crying. The sheriff's office made all five honorary deputies.

In 1981 Chuck Leavell was an out-of-work piano player who planted pines on about 40 acres of his wife's Georgia pasture. Then the Rolling Stones called, and he has been their keyboardist and musical director ever since, studying forestry by mail on tour. In 1999 the American Tree Farm System named the couple National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year. He still works those rows between tours.

Steve Harvey's father was a West Virginia coal miner who died in 2000. Harvey says that loss inspired him to start a camp in 2009 for teenage boys growing up without a father, and by 2019 it drew 250 boys. He still hosts it today, now on a Georgia ranch he bought in 2022, where the boys are taught to fish.