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More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean War.
As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, and a death every 13 seconds.
San Jose has the highest median household income in the country, at $77,000.
The Monopoly board in Guadalupe River Park is 30 square feet, making it the largest Monopoly board in the world.
Inn the great fire of 1666, half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
Known for his role as Eric Foreman’s disgruntled dad in “That 70s Show,” (and “Robocop über baddie Clarence J. Boddicker) Kurtwood Smith attended San Jose State University during the early 1960s.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
With 6,256 participants digging into the ground, the construction of the San Jose Earthquakes’ stadium set the Guinness World Record for the largest ground breaking event ever.
Over half of the adults in San Jose have a college degree, making it one of the most educated cities in the country.
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The Winchester Mystery House of San Jose is thought to have 160 rooms, as continual building started after Mrs. Winchester was told by a psychic that she would die if construction on the build stopped.
There’s one employee for every six students at San Jose State University.
San Jose State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library is the largest public library west of the Mississippi.
Despite its large size, San Jose is the third safest large city in America with low crime rates and low criminal activity.
Steve Wozniak was the largest private donor during the initial construction of the Children’s Discovery Museum, which sees roughly 325,000 visitors every year.
In san Jose it’s against the law for an unmanned vehicle to travel faster than 60 miles per hour.
A man who’s travelled over 16 million miles during four space flights, accumulating almost 50 hours of spacewalk time, astronaut Steve Smith graduated from Bret Harte Middle School and Leland High School in the ’70s.
It’s illegal for animals to mate publically if they’re less than 1,500 feet from a church, school, or bar in San Jose.
Most downtown buildings in San Jose can’t be taller than 300 feet due to its close proximity to the airport.
. San Jose recycles the most among large American cities.
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San Jose is pronounced as San Ho-say
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In Egypt around 1500 B.C., a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
George Lumley, aged 104, married Mary Dunning, aged 10, in Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the great-great granddaughter of the woman who'd broken her engagement to Lumley, eighty years before.
In Elizabethan England, the spoon was so novel and prized that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets.