1. Wyoming is the only state with just one four-year postgraduate university: the University of Wyoming. The next closest states are Alaska and Delaware with five.

2. Wyoming stood in for the cold and desolate Soviet Union in Rocky IV.

3. With 580,000 residents, the population of Wyoming is roughly the same as the population of Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Luxembourg.

4. White Hall, on the University of Wyoming’s campus in Laramie, is the tallest building in the state. The 12-story dormitory is 200 feet high.

5. If you're in Newcastle, Wyoming, and suddenly feel the urge to a have sex in a store’s walk-in meat freezer, don't do it: there's a strict ordinance against the act.

6. Wyoming was the last state to raise the legal drinking age back to 21 in 1988. Between 1973 and 1988, the legal drinking age was 19.

7. In 1939, portions of northern Wyoming attempted to join portions of South Dakota and Montana in an attempt to form a new state called "Absaroka." Sheridan, Wyoming was the planned capital, a state license plate was created, and a "Miss Absaroka" was even named.

8. In 2012, a petition circulated around the state calling for Wyoming’s peaceful secession from the United States was signed by nearly 10,000 residents (almost 2% of the population)

9. In 2010, the LDS church (62,804 adherents) edged out the Catholic Church (61,222 adherents) as the largest church in the state.

10. In Wyoming, it's illegal to wear a hat that obstructs people's view in a public theater or place of amusement. It's also illegal to use firearms to fish.

11. Following the lynching of the outlaw Big Nose George Parrott in 1881, a twisted doctor named John Eugene Osborne had the criminal's skin tanned and turned into shoes. That doctor would later become the Governor of Wyoming in 1893 and eventually serve as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.

12. Move over, West Virginia. In 2010, Wyoming produced a whopping 40% of the nation's total coal supply.

13. One of Wyoming’s most famous native sons, Dick Cheney, would eventually graduate from the University of Wyoming. Originally, however, he attended Yale on the recommendation of Casper oil man Tom Stroock, who helped him receive a full scholarship. Cheney would go on to fail out of the school twice and return to his home state after two years.

14. There are reportedly only two escalators in the entire state, and both are located in the town of Casper.

15. There is no Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The 2005 film was filmed in Alberta, Canada.