- In Montana, cows outnumber humans thirteen to one.
- Just south of Billings is the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer made his last stand.
- Montana holds the world record for the greatest temperature change in 24 hours. On January 14-15, 1972, the temperature went from from -45°F to 49°F a whopping 103 degrees in Loma!
- Dave McNally (1942- 2002), the only baseball pitcher in history to hit a grand slam home run in a World Series, was born in Billings.
- In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.
- From December of 1995 until May of 1999, Montana did not have numerical speed limits on interstate highways. During that period, drivers only had to drive in a “reasonable and prudent” manner!
- The average square mile of land in Montana contains 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer.
- 46 out of Montana's 56 counties are considered "frontier counties" with an average population of 6 or fewer people per square mile.
- Yellowstone National Park in southern Montana and northern Wyoming was the first national park in the nation.
- More than 6 million tourists visit Yellowstone and Glacier national parks annually.
- Among the approximately 100 species of mammals in Montana are elk, black bears, grizzly bears, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, moose, caribou, and mountain lions.
- Daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel was born in Butte, Montana in 1938.
- At the Rocky Mountain Front Eagle Migration Area west of Great Falls, more golden eagles have been seen in a single day than anywhere else in the country.
- In Helena, Montana it is illegal to throw an item across a street.
- In 1888, Helena had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world.
- The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman gained fame through the work of its chief paleontologist, Jack Horner. Horner was the prototype for the character Dr. Alan Grant in the best selling novel/movie, "Jurassic Park."
- Montana is the only state with a triple divide allowing water to flow into the Pacific, Atlantic, and Hudson Bay. This phenomenon occurs at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park.
- Montana has the largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states.
- The largest snowflake ever recorded was observed in Montana on January 28, 1887. It was 38 cm in diameter – just under 15 inches.
- All creeks in Montana are pronounced "crick."
- In Whitehall, Montana it is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels.
- It has been observed that Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard that their hooves fall off.
- A Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weighs more than three pounds, two ounces.
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