Did you know....?
- Arizona leads the nation in copper production. In fact, the amount of copper in the roof of the capitol building amounts to about 4,800,000 pennies.
- The age of a saguaro cactus is determined by its height.
- Arizona became the 48th state on Valentine's Day of 1912.
- Pioneer filmmaker, Cecil B. DeMille originally traveled to Flagstaff to make his first film but he arrived there in the middle of a storm and decided to move operations further west, to Hollywood. His film, The Squaw Man (1914), went on to be wildly successful, launching the fledgling movie industry and establishing Hollywood as the movie capital of the world.
- The Arizona Cardinals are the oldest continuous franchise in the National Football League, dating back to 1898 ( Don't worry- I'm still a Colts fan).
- Sunshine is in huge supply in Phoenix. The Valley averages 211 clear days and 85 partly cloudy days per year
- The name Arizona is a Spanish version of the Pima Indian word arizonac for “little spring place”. The Aztec’s version is arizuma meaning “silver-bearing”.
Now for just some funny random facts...
- A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
- At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. To the left, to the left.
