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More “Useless Facts for Inquiring Minds.”

● Mormon Lake in northern Arizona has a surface area of 12 square miles, but averages only about 10 feet deep. During dry seasons, the lake sometimes disappears entirely.

● Caesar salad was invented in Mexico.

● Mike Ditka played pro football as a tight end for the Bears, Eagles, and Cowboys from 1961 to 1972, then coached until 1999. He won Super Bowls as a player, assistant coach, and head coach.

● The Ford Mustang is named after the P-51 Mustang, the leading propeller-driven fighter-bomber in WWII. The Mustang also was the main fighter at the beginning of the Korean War, but jets such as the F-86 soon succeeded it.

● Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands choose not to observe Daylight Saving Time. Mostly due to their locations, they say they have enough daylight as it is.

● A dragonfly eats about 300 mosquitoes a day.

● The elements of the periodic table are organized by atomic number, which is the number of protons in the nucleus.

● The Roman emperor Caligula, son of the Roman general Germanicus, was born Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. As a child, he was given the nickname Caligula, which means “little soldier’s boot,” by his father’s troops.