32. Kansas

32. Kansas

Dorothy: "Toto... we're not in Kansas anymore." / Toto: "You're right. There are far greater than 27.3% alcohol-related driving deaths per year. It can't be Kansas." I think that could have been a great set of alternate lines for 'The Wizard of Oz' between Dorothy and Toto. It's accurate too, which is so important in movies about witches and talking lions.

Interestingly, Kansas is known as the Sunflower State, and sometimes if you go to really fancy bars they'll do stupid stuff like put a sunflower in your drink so they can charge you $5 more. Or they'll burn a lemon peel and throw it in there. Because the reason why we go to a bar is to buy flowers and lemon peels. SMH.

Statistics :

Adults drinking excessively: 16.9% - Alcohol-related driving deaths: 27.3% (8th lowest) - Adults in fair or poor health: 15.1% (22nd lowest) - Drunkest metro area: Lawrence, KS

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Did You Know...

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In the US, the average spent on an engagement ring is $6,351 but how do these figures compare with our favorite celebrities? The answer: they don't. As the diamonds increase in size, obviously the price tag appreciates handsomely. Well, we've compiled a list of some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings.

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This list would be nothing without Kim Kardashian's rock from Kanye, which clocked in at around a cool $4 million when he presented it to her at his stadium proposal in October 2013. Unfortunately, though, the 15-carat sparkler was among the jewelry stolen during Kim's infamous Paris robbery in 2016.

III

Jennifer Lopez's husband Alex Rodriguez popped the question to the singer, and he really had to step it up to outshine her previous engagement rings—and wow, did he deliver. The baseball star proposed with a reported 15-20 carat emerald cut stunner set on a platinum band that was estimated at $5 million. It's getting harder and harder not to be fooled by the rocks she's got...

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It should come as no surprise that Beyonce herself totes one of the world's highest-valued diamonds. Weighing in at 24 carats, Jay reportedly paid around $5 million (now worth $6,047,013) for Bey's flashy emerald-cut ring back in 2008.

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Anna Kournikova's relationship Latin music artist Enrique Iglesias since the early '00s has been one of the most lowkey celebrity relationships to date. That is with the exception of her $5,400,000 engagement ring that made headlines in 2004. Now, worth a whopping $7,443,596, the giant yellow stunner was spotted on Kournikova even during her tennis matches. (Pssst! It's rumored she got two rings from Iglesias. Prior to this, she sported an equally giant pink pear-shaped ring.)

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Clocking in as the most expensive celebrity engagement ring, Mariah Carey's 35-carat bling from ex-fiancé James Packer reportedly cost a cool $10 million. And the "Obsessed" singer seemed to be a bit, well, obsessed with the jewel. She continued to wear the ring over a year post-breakup, and didn't part ways with the bauble until May 2018, selling it to a Los Angeles jeweler for $2.1 million.

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