- ...that Brent Scowcroft (pictured) (born in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush?
- ...that Pando, a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen in Utah near Fish Lake and Bryce Canyon National Park, is the heaviest known organism in existence?
- ...that Natalie Williams, who attended Taylorsville High School and UCLA, is the first woman to earn collegiate All-America honors in both basketball and volleyball in the same year?