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A courtroom artist was arrested today for an unknown reason... details are sketchy.
The Capitol Records Building is considered iconic because it was built in such a way to resemble a stack of vinyl 45 records.
The first computer dates back to Adam and Eve. It was an Apple with limited memory, just one byte. And then everything crashed.
Some of the trendiest or most famous neighborhoods in Los Angeles are Downtown, Hollywood (the “Show Busines Capital of the World”, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Bel Air, Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Koreatown, Chinatown, and Little Tokyo.
LA’s most famous beaches include Santa Monica, Malibu, Huntington, Redondo, Manhattan, and Venice Beach.
The city of Compton in South Central Los Angeles is considered the birthplace of West Coast hip hop and gangsta rap, producing the likes of N.W.A. (including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube) and Coolio.
In 2008 it was estimated that 80% of all businesses on the isle of Sicily were forced to pay a "protection fee" to the Mafia.
There are more hotels with rooftop pools in Los Angeles than any other city in the US.
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I just found out I'm colorblind. The diagnosis came completely out of the purple.
I saw an ad for burial plots, and thought to myself this is the last thing I need.
My dad died when we couldn't remember his blood type. As he died, he kept insisting for us to "be positive," but it's hard without him.
Dolphins trained to kill for the Soviet navy were sold to Iran because they could no longer afford to feed it.
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I wasn't originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.
Street art in Los Angeles is some of the best in the country. Click the link to see a map of over 600 pieces.
I have a few jokes about unemployed people but it doesn't matter none of them work.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is one of the city’s most famous attraction. To date, there are over 2700 stars dedicated to those in the television, film and music industries, spanning 18 city blocks and attracting 10 million annual visitors.
In German slang, the @ symbol is called a klammeraffe or “spider monkey.”
Another must-see landmark is the ornate facade of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and the Forecourt of the Stars. Many famous stars have had their names, handprints and footprints immortalized here.
The 45 ft (13.7 m)-tall, 350 feet (106.7 m)-long white letters of the Hollywood Sign has been gracing Mount Lee in the Hollywood Hills since 1923.
St. Clare of Assisi is the Catholic Church's patron saint of television.
The sign has been depicted as getting destroyed in numerous Hollywood movies, including Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Terminator Salvation, and Sharknado, and San Andreas
By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small NYC hotel room.
In 2021, vandals were caught trying to change the word to “Hollyboob”.
Disneyland in Anaheim, Greater Los Angeles was the only one built under direct supervision of Walt Disney himself. It has the greatest cumulative attendance of any theme park in the world, though these days its annual attendance is surpassed by Disney World in Florida.
87% of Americans can be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birth date, and gender.
Universal Studios Hollywood is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood studios, plus an amusement park. Its huge globe statue is yet another iconic Los Angeles sight.
Under the original terms of the U.S. Constitution, the President could not choose his vice president, instead it was the candidate with the second most votes.
The Theme Building is a Space Age building at Los Angeles International Airport that looks straight out of the Jetsons.