Connecticut enacted the first speed limit of 12 MPH
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RI gave out the first speeding ticket in 1904, and cities today can set up their own speed limit enforcement cameras.
Long Native American place names like Chaubunagungamaug may have inspired the longest state name in the USA: Massachusetts (not Mississippi).
NH has the shortest coastline of any state (18 miles)
Maine voted to secede from Massachusetts in 1820, becoming an independent state.