Almost everyone knows about the Hollywood Sign, the Lakers and the congested traffic, but there are still some things in Los Angeles that shine like gold that people may have overlooked.
1. When Los Angeles was founded, its Spanish name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Seora la Reina de los ngeles del Río de Porciúncula," meaning the City of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels.
2. In 1892, oil was discovered near the current Dodge Stadium.
3. In 1923, Los Angeles produced a quarter of the world's oil. Today, it is one of the three largest oil fields in the country.
4. The wells at Beverly Hills High School produce about 4 million barrels of oil per day. The school earns nearly $300,000 a year.
5. No one buys gifts on holidays and goes to the coroner's office. But if so, there is a gift shop at the Los Angeles Coroner's Office.
6. Los Angeles can be a disaster if it rains. On April 5, 1926, the San Gabriel Mountains collected up to 1 inch of rain per minute.
7. In February 1978, it rained one foot in 24 hours.
8. Why did the film industry finally settle in Los Angeles? At first it was just to avoid intellectual property claims from Thomas Edison, who lives in New Jersey, because he owns many film patents in the country.
9. Beverly Hills was originally a farm growing green beans.
10. Santa Monica Marina was originally designed to protect sewer pipes that discharge treated sewage into the sea.
11. In 2006, a new tar pit was discovered in Los Angeles containing a large number of fossilized ice age animals, including saber-toothed tigers, giant sloths, mountain lions, and a mammoth named Zed.
12. If Los Angeles is a country, its economy surpasses that of Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Sweden.
13. In 1996, actor Charlie Sheen bought 2,615 off-field seats at Angel Stadium near Anaheim so he could catch a home run. But in the end he found nothing.
14. Los Angeles has 135 different languages.
15. Originally known as "Hollywood Manor," the Hollywood Sign was an advertisement made by real estate developers.
16. There were 1,092 murders in Los Angeles in 1992, compared to 298 in 2012.
The sloping Angels Flight is only 320 feet long and is one of the shortest in the world.
18. Every spring, the Getty Museum hires goats to prune the bushes around it.
19. Countless Hollywood celebrities are buried in Hollywood's permanent cemetery, including Bugs Bunny voice actor Mel Blanc, who inscribed "That's all folks" on his epitaph. (Classic footage at the end of each episode of the Bugs Bunny cartoon)
20. It is illegal to lick a toad in Los Angeles.
21.Since the 1943 "Zoute Riots," Los Angeles banned loose suits.
22. It is illegal to let 2,000 sheep cross hollywood boulevards at the same time.
23. Unlike other baseball stadiums, Dodge Stadium is built beneath the ground and has parking lots in each viewing area.
24.In 2012, a 340-ton granite boulder visited Los Angeles, and it took 11 days for the crew to transport it to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 85 miles away.
25. At the start of completion, the metal façade of walt Disney Concert Hall reflected so much light that the temperature of the nearby pavement surface reached 140°F.
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