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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
San Jose is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, with monthly rent averaging around $1,750 and the average home cost sitting at $750,000.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Millie the White House dog earned more than four times as President Bush in 1991.
San Jose Municipal Rose Garden has over 4,000 rose bushes.
San Jose has eight sister cities around the world, including places in Japan, Ireland, Russia, India, Taiwan, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 set hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
San Jose State University dropout Stevie Nicks went on to have the sixth bestselling album of on time with the band Fleetwood Mac, selling over 40 million copies worldwide.
23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph in San Jose is the oldest parish in California.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed using only the left hand.
71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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With quick commutes, healthy lifestyles, and an extremely low poverty rate of less than 11 percent, San Jose is one of the top 10 least stressed cities in the country.
According to Zoosk, San Jose is the second worst place for dating in the country, behind only Raleigh, as residents are extremely picky with regards to who they spend time with.
Go to Denver boys.
Upon leaving the military after what he’s referred to as “the two worst years of [his] life”, labor activist Cesar Chavez relocated to San Jose where he settled down and had eight children.
A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
SharkByte, San Jose’s 2001 display of decorative sharks, was inspired by Chicago’s display of decorated cows. These auctioned pieces can still be found around the city depending on where their purchasers chose to display them.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Josh Holloway, the actor that played the bad boy Sawyer on “Lost,” was born in San Jose.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the keys on only one row of the keyboard.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones: Bhutan.
There are over 50 miles of commuting trails throughout San Jose.
Alum Rock Park is the oldest municipal park in the entire state of California.
More patents come out of San Jose than any other city in the country.
Looking at curse words used in online reviews, San Jose was determined to be the 11th rudest city in the entire world.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.