1. Denver may be the “Mile High City,” but there’s a THREE-MILE-HIGH CITY. The world’s highest permanent settlement is La Rinconada in Peru, which is more than 16,000 feet in elevation.
And according to Harvard, as many as one in four residents may have hypoxia . . . or low levels of oxygen in your body tissue. Symptoms include breathlessness, headaches, ringing ears, sleep problems, palpitations, heart failure, and death.
2. The famous fire scene in “Gone With the Wind” was filmed with seven Technicolor cameras . . . and they were the only seven of those cameras in the world at that time.
3. The first diet soda to use aspartame as a sweetener was Diet Squirt in 1983.
4. Square dancing is the official state dance for 24 of the 29 states that actually have an official dance.
