Some are suprising, such as Illinois, Missouri, and Rhode Island.
Being hot and crazy. Lots of hotness (climate-wise) and craziness (people-wise).
Betcha can’t guess where I live.
(There are also, suprisingly, lots of cattle ranches and limestone quarries here, if that’s what the OP was looking for.)
Swiss cheese? Looks like we’re good at being Amish, too!
Current state: Highest percentage of non-religious people.
Native state: 8th largest economy in the world, most UFO sightings.
We have the most golf courses. Who knew.
Michigan
Cutting edge energy policy. And, Oh yeah, speeding tickets!
Iowa. Enough with the corn already. Everybody knows, nobody gives a shit. Talk up our high literacy and low unemployment for a change. Also we’re your number one producer of hogs, ie: YUMMY BACON.
Illinois is famous for its interesting politics.
I’m homeless at the moment, but I’m staying in California. That blog says that California has the 8th largest economy in the world and has the most UFO sightings. I knew the first and am not surprised by the second, since California also has more people to spot UFOs than any other state. That is a less than exciting factoid.
Big Pharma is in Jersey—that’s my gig
And city life is always close by. I like being equidistant between NY and Philly.
According to the news tonight, Wisconsin is way up the list for drinking and driving.
And having its governors (and other politicians) convicted for felonies.
Given that Wisconsin has the highest per-capita brandy consumption (and is pretty high on the per-capita beer consumption list, too), that doesn’t surprise me too much, unfortunately.
Not my state, but the site says West Virginia leads the nation in toothlessness.
Missouri’s notable achievement is apparently shared by Kansas as the Kansas City Metro area is in both states. And a long way away from me.
UFO sightings, apparently. That and the fact that we are the 8th largest economy on the planet, all by ourselves.
Montana has the highest population of Grizzly Bears in the lower 48. But the site gives it a frowny face because that is a bad ‘energy’ policy
What part of Switzerland do you live in? We used to live in Geneva.
Checking in from California.
By far, my state’s greatest talent is destroying its own economy; but that’s probably not what you meant…
We make some pretty good movies here. Avocados, too. And we’re down with gay rights and medical marijuana, although regarding those issues, Oregon & Vermont are far ahead of us. 
Drive by shootings, lots and lots of those.
And laziness, the land of manana, the fat lazy gangbangers can’t even be
bothered to get out of their car to shoot somebody properly.
On the lazy front, we’re good at child abuse. Killing babies is easy, they can’t run away, and when they’re dead you don’t have to pay child support. Toddlers
don’t run very fast, so they’re good for beating too.
I’m not thrilled with this area as of late.
Pennsylvania: Snack Food Capital of Dah World!