Utah’s Great Salt Lake used to be the home of a single flamingo nicknamed Pink Floyd, who escaped from an aviary in Salt Lake City in the late 1980’s and would be seen wintering in Utah socializing with seagulls. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Pink Floyd and the Great Salt Lake — High Country News – Know the West (hcn.org)
Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia all have official state firearms ranging from a single action revolver to a semi-automatic sniper rifle. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_firearms
One of the largest and oldest organisms on Earth, the ‘Trembling Giant’, is slowly dying to mule deer. The 106-acre pando quaking aspen colony in Utah, which is nearly 80,000 years old, is being thinned by the deer eating its new stems. The mule deer are thriving as they currently have no natural predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/63852-failing-aspen-clone-utah.html
The USPS has ~1,700 employees in Utah whose sole job is to read illegible addresses which the machine can’t read. They process 5 million pieces of mail daily with some employees averaging 1,600 addresses an hour. – WTF Fun Facts
