 Eighty-seven percent of Nevada land is managed by the federal government.- Area 51, a top secret area of Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site, is rumored to have housed the development of the first Stealth bomber and alien and UFO research facilities.
- Nevada is the seventh largest state in size.
- The nation's largest silver deposit, the Comstock Lode, was found in Nevada in 1859.
- Nevada is the driest state in the nation with an average annual rainfall of seven inches.
- Nevada has the only complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile measuring 55 feet.
- Nevada is the largest gold-producing state in the U.S. and third in the world behind South Africa and Australia.
- Gambling was reinstated in the State in 1931.
- Hoover Dam is the largest public works project ever undertaken in the U.S. and has a greater structural volume than the largest Egyptian pyramid.
- Virginia City, founded when the Comstock Lode was discovered, was home to 20,000 people at its peak in 1870. Now only about 800 people live in this modern ghost town.
- Nevada is the gambling and entertainment capital of the U.S.
- Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on earth.
- Nevada means "snowcapped" in Spanish.
- On average, 150 couples are married each day in Las Vegas.
- In 1899, Charles Fey invented a slot machine called the Liberty Bell, which became the model for all slots.
- Nevada has over 200,000 slot machines, one for every 10 residents.
- In Death Valley, the kangaroo rat can live its entire life without drinking a drop of liquid.
- Nevada has more mountain ranges than any other state.
- Nevada's Humboldt River has no outlet to the ocean; the river sinks into the ground, feeding a massive underground aquifer.
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