Kansas Facts

A woman in Kansas who sat on the toilet for 2 years had to be rescued after she became physically stuck to it.

A World War II bomber named Doc sat in the Mojave for 42 years as a Navy target. An Air Force veteran spent more than eleven of those years talking the Navy into letting it go. It went home to Wichita, where 1,644 B-29s were built, and retirees from those lines helped rebuild it. Doc is one of two B-29s still flying, and it lands at airports every year so people can climb inside.

Bill Broadie came home from Vietnam a wounded 19-year-old Marine and met anti-war protesters. In April 2008 volunteers he gathered from the cattle business cooked ribeyes for Kansas National Guardsmen leaving for Iraq. Broadie died in 2021, and his All American Beef Battalion kept hauling its cookers from base to base. By late 2025 it had fed 457,500 troops and family members in 29 states.