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Utah has a professional basketball team - the Utah Jazz, which of course has nothing to do with the state.
Utah is home to America's first department store, the Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution. It was a socialist experiment that ended up making money when it went capitalistic on everyone.
Utah's license plates have a desert image of a bowlegged cowboyâat least thatâs what my kids think.
Utah's Great Salt Lake covers 2100 square miles with average depth of 13 feet. State once spent $50 million to drain it, but after building pumps, the lake receded. But this is not the greatest waste: that happened when SLC Tribune started publishing.
The state symbol of Utah is the beehive, which represents stay the heck away or you will be stung to death.
Utah's Wasatch mountain range is named after Sasquatchâs cousin Wesley.
During WWII, the Alta ski center served as a training ground for the paratroopers from the 10th Mountain Regiment. Dang military bureaucracy then had them jump into Northern Africa, but it was not a total loss--the brass let them take with them some awesome ski passes.
Fillmore, Utah served as Utahâs capital when it was still a territory. It was named for US President Millard Fillmore. Really. There was a President named Fillmore and Utah named its capital after him. This explains why only Utahans can identify Fillmore as a President in trivia games asking to name the most forgotten President in American history.
Beaver, Utah is the birthplace of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaking of invention, Utah has invented lots of words like 'darn', 'fetch', 'flip', 'heck', and 'shootâ
65% of Utah is owned by the federal government, this does not include Ute Basketball, which is 100% owned by BYU.
Brigham Young started up the University of Utah. Learning from its mistakes, the Church then founded BYU.
The University of Utah once announced that it had discovered cold fusion. But they had to retract the claim later when it proved false. Turns out the concoction under study was nothing more than some freshman's nightcap.
Utah has a professional basketball team - the Utah Jazz, which of course has nothing to do with the state.
Utah is home to America's first department store, the Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution. It was a socialist experiment that ended up making money when it went capitalistic on everyone.
Utah's license plates have a desert image of a bowlegged cowboyâat least thatâs what my kids think.
Utah's Great Salt Lake covers 2100 square miles with average depth of 13 feet. State once spent $50 million to drain it, but after building pumps, the lake receded. But this is not the greatest waste: that happened when SLC Tribune started publishing.
The state symbol of Utah is the beehive, which represents stay the heck away or you will be stung to death.
Utah's Wasatch mountain range is named after Sasquatchâs cousin Wesley.
During WWII, the Alta ski center served as a training ground for the paratroopers from the 10th Mountain Regiment. Dang military bureaucracy then had them jump into Northern Africa, but it was not a total loss--the brass let them take with them some awesome ski passes.
Fillmore, Utah served as Utahâs capital when it was still a territory. It was named for US President Millard Fillmore. Really. There was a President named Fillmore and Utah named its capital after him. This explains why only Utahans can identify Fillmore as a President in trivia games asking to name the most forgotten President in American history.
Beaver, Utah is the birthplace of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaking of invention, Utah has invented lots of words like 'darn', 'fetch', 'flip', 'heck', and 'shootâ
65% of Utah is owned by the federal government, this does not include Ute Basketball, which is 100% owned by BYU.
Brigham Young started up the University of Utah. Learning from its mistakes, the Church then founded BYU.
The University of Utah once announced that it had discovered cold fusion. But they had to retract the claim later when it proved false. Turns out the concoction under study was nothing more than some freshman's nightcap.