Nevada fun facts

Fun Facts

• In Death Valley,the Kangaroo Rat can live its entire life without drinking a single drop of liquid
• Wayne Newton has a home in Las Vegas that was used in the film "Vegas Vacation".
• The only Nevada lake with an outlet to the sea is man made Lake Mead
• Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on Earth
• Nevada takes its name from a Spanish word meaning snowclad

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• Lake Mead was named after Elwood Mead,who was the commissioner of the US Bureau of Reclamation during 1924 to 1936.The Boulder Canyon Project while he was there created the dam and lake.That proves it wasn't created naturally.It receives its water from snow melt in the Colorado,Wyoming,and the Utah Rocky Mountains.At the bottom of the lake,there is(or was)wreckage from a plane crash in 1948 and 2 other crashed planes.

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• Kangaroo Rats can live without water(at least the Nevada ones).Their name comes from their bipedal form.Even though they're not related,they hop in a similar manner as a kangaroo does.Adults weigh in at 70 and 170 g.Kangaroo Rats live in complex burrow systems.

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