- The Country Store in Baker, CA has sold more winning California State Lottery tickets than any outlet in the state.
- Reputed to be the most corrupt politician in Fresno County history, Vice-leader Joseph Spinney was mayor for only ten minutes.
- One out of every eight United States residents lives in California.
- The largest oil can collection in the world, of 10,000 cans, is found in Santa Rosa, CA.
- Seventeen-Mile Drive through Pebble Beach is the only private toll road west of the Mississippi River.
- The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has enough steel wires in its cables to circle the earth at the equator 3.5 times.
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- The Golden Gate Bridge is so big that workers paint the bridge year round. By the time they are finished with one end it is time to begin repainting the other end.
- The birth of the Internet was sparked from the campus of UCLA in 1969 when professor Leonard Kleinrock needed a way to communicate between campuses.
- Cool Californian inventions: Barbie Dolls, blue jeans, the boysenberry, the pill, white zinfandel wine, the square tomato, natural soda, the computer "mouse," the wetsuit, and theme parks.
- The Petrified Forest near Calistoga has a 3000 year old Redwood tree, that was petrified 3.4 million years ago.
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