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Disney World is the second-largest purchaser of explosives in the United States, the first being the U.S. Department of Defense.
In 1883, the City Railroad Company was established.
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In 1892, oil was discovered within the LA city limits.
The first movie filmed in Hollywood was in 1908, while the first film studio opened on Sunset Boulevard in 1911.
All astronauts must learn how to speak Russian, and all cosmonauts must learn how to speak English.
Los Angeles International Airport first opened in 1928.
Beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people don't confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks.
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Five years before he won Wimbledon, Fred Perry was world table-tennis champion.
The Academy Awards began in 1929, and have been hosted in various venues in the city ever since.
The population of Los Angeles surpassed 1 million in 1930.
Al Capone was expelled from school at the age of 14 for hitting a female teacher, and never went back.
Los Angeles hosted the 1932 Summer Olympic Games.
When the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, Benjamin Franklin suggested that the word "sacred" be replaced with "self-evident" because he believed that the nation should be founded on reason, not faith.
In the 1930s, Hollywood reached its “Golden Age”.
On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its doors to the public.
Drinking very hot beverages increases your risk of developing cancer.
The first ever Grammy Awards ceremony was held in 1959 simultaneously in Beverly Hills, LA, and New York City.
In the 1964 Watts Riots, 14,000 members of the National Guard had to be called in.
The Pentagon has over 5 million square feet of office space and 17 miles of corridors.
Comparative analysis indicated that chimpanzees and bonobos show population-level right handedness, whereas gorillas and orangutans do not.
The I-15 Highway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Nevada was opened to traffic in 1966.
Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.
The 4.5 million ties bought each year in America for Father's Day would stretch from New York to Rome.
The first City of Los Angeles Marathon took place in 1986, with nearly 11,000 participants.
The California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in U.S. history. There were more than 300,000 new arrivals in just a few years.
The first Los Angeles Metro Line (blue) opened in 1990.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was detected by radar in advance, but the readings were misinterpreted.
The 1991 beating of Rodney King resulted in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, which saw 63 killed and over 2000 injured.