COLORADO
Dove Creek, Colorado is the Pinto Bean Capital of the world.
Some Colorado sheep farmers use llamas to guard their sheep.
Louis Ballast of Denver, Colorado was given a trademark for the name 'cheeseburger' in 1936. He never enforced it though.
The aluminum beer can was introduced in 1959 by Coors of Golden, Colorado.
Alfred Packer was convicted of cannibalism in Colorado. He was sentenced to death, but was retried in 1886 and sentenced to 40 years. He was paroled in 1901, and died in 1907.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the month of May in the U.S. lower 48 states was minus 10 F at Climax, Colorado in 1896.
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