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- The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
- The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
- The highest and lowest points in the continental United States are within 100 miles (160 km) of one another. Mount Whitney measures 14,495 feet (4,418 m) and Bad Water in Death Valley is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.
- San Francisco Bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor.
- Fresno, in Central California, proclaims itself the Raisin Capital of the World.
- One out of every eight music festivals in the United States is held in California
- California has the largest economy in the United States.
- One out of every eight United States residents lives in California.