Smokey Bear was invented in New Mexico after the Capitan Gap fire of 1950.
Even though Pluto is no longer a planet, its discoverer was New Mexican Clyde Tombaugh.
More chili peppers are born in New Mexico than all other states combined.
Albuquerque has more than 300 local hot air balloons.
The first town in New Mexico was Elizabethtown, which has since become a ghost town in Colfax County.
Bandera Ice Cave is believed to be over 3,000 years old, dating back to 1100 B.C.
A third of New Mexicans speak Spanish while at home.
The first atomic bomb ever detonated was set off near Alamogordo in 1945.
Santa Fe’s Governors Palace is the oldest government building in the country.
Before achieving his fame at Tombstone, Doc Holliday ran a dentist office in Las Vegas, N.M.
Around 1,000 official reports of UFOs are made each year in New Mexico.