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- ... that Bodega Bay (pictured) in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds?
- ... that the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
- ... that American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
- ... that California's Russian River (Pacific Ocean estuary pictured) is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
- ... that a pencil sharpener, frequently found in the San Francisco Bay Area, "is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving the end of the pencil"? Well, all right, you probably did.
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