8 Unusual Things You Probably Didn’t Know Happened In Arizona

Originally named Jackie, this was the studio’s second lion and the roar you recognize at the beginning of many classic films. On a flight from San Diego to New York, the customized plane carrying the lion crashed near the Bear Flat campground in Rim Country. Both the pilot and Leo survived the crash and initially survived on a diet of milk, sandwiches, and water. The dazed pilot spent nearly a week trying to find his way to a telephone to report the crash, leaving the lion locked in his cage. Once the pilot contacted the studio, locals helped him rescue Leo from the wilderness and deliver him to Payson to be transported back to California.

Ouch! That bill was $961 and was turned back on after a myriad of complaints from veterans groups who helped pay to install the memorial.

The huge cat once roamed significant portions of the Americas, including up into California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, until American settlers began hunting the animals down to non-existence. In 1963, the last known female jaguar was killed in the White Mountains by a hunter, and a male jaguar named Macho B. was killed in 2009 by a former Game and Fish subcontractor. El Jefe was caught on video in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson and revived hope into the possibility of revitalizing this population in Arizona.

Ted Jorgenson had no idea that his son grew up to be one of the richest people in the world, at first asking the journalist if his son was still alive.

Other fun facts about the Cardinals: The Cardinals came to Arizona from Saint Louis in the 1980s but were originally founded in 1898 as the Chicago Cardinals. The team was named after the color "cardinal red" rather than the bird.

The film Spare Parts was released in 2015 based on the enterprising robotics students and their teachers.

In fact, as the transportation department replaces out-dated signs, community members prefer the oddball signs.

The sinkhole/well continuously flows with water and despite scientific methods of trying to find the starting source, it still has yet to be found.