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Did you know
... 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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