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Yellowstone Geysers and Jackson Celebrities
- Yellowstone National Park contains about 2/3 of the geysers on earth, about 300 in total.
- Old Faithful, the park's – and the world's – most famous geyser, is actually not as predictable as its name suggests. The time between eruptions depends on how long the previous eruption lasted. It is usually about every 76 minutes, but it can be anywhere from 35 minutes to a two-hour wait for the next eruption.
- Old Faithful can shoot up 184 feet in the air, and the world's largest geyser, Steamboat, can go as high as 300 feet – about the length of a football field.
- Watch where you are walking – not all geysers erupt straight up. Ledge Geyser erupts at an angle out the side of a hill.
- In 1920, Jackson, Wyoming elected the first all-woman city council.
- Robert Redford's 1992 movie, "A River Runs Through It," was set in the town of Livingston, where the beautiful Yellowstone River, the longest free-flowing river in the lower 48 states, literally runs right through the town.
- On the U.S Voyager II spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 to explore unknown parts of the solar system, a photograph of Jackson Hole, taken by famed photographer Ansel Adams, is part of the artifacts cargo.
- Over 15 films have been made on location in Jackson Hole, including "Rocky IV."
- Butte, Montana is the real, or imagined, hometown of several celebrities. Infamous motorcycle daredevil and death defyer Evel Knievel can honestly call the old mining town home. Meanwhile, well-loved actress Lucille Ball would often tell people she was from Butte, although she was actually from Jamestown, New York. The star of "I Love Lucy" told a biographer that she pretended to be from Butte in order to seem more "middle America."
- Whether it was the gold that made them their money or simply attracted them, the gold-rush town of Helena, Montana at one point hosted more millionaires per capita than any city in the world. In 1888, about 50 millionaires lived in the capital city.
French Canadian trappers named the Grand Tetons – which translates to "the big breasts"
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