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John Lee Richmond was the first pitcher to throw a perfect no
hitter game on June 12, 1880.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The Minnesota Twins won the World Series in 1991, the year that Calabasas was incorporated.
74% of Calabasas residents have a college degree.
There are 12 stops on the Calabasas Trolley route.
The seven wonders of the world are; The Great Pyramid of
Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, The Colossus
of Rhodes, and The Lighthouse of Alexandria.
The first Calabasas City Hall was located at 233622
Calabasas Road, Suite 149, Old Town Calabasas.
The Name "Calabasas" first appeared in the San
Fernando Mission records on
Aug. 18, 1795.
The De Anza explorers first visited the Calabasas area in
1776.
The Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Jimmy
Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
Jousting
is the state sport of Maryland.
The San Francisco Cable
Cars are the only mobile U.S. National Monument.
It only
took John Hughes two days to write the screen play for Weird Science.
There
are 118 ridges around the edge of a dime.
Honey
is the only food that does not spoil.
The Elephant is the
only mammal that can not jump.
Earth is the most dense
planet.
Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
Iceland consumes the most Coca-Cola per capita.
"Dances with Wolves" was voted best picture in
1991, the year Calabasas was incorporated.
Monaco is 0.73 square miles.
There have been 6 Calabasas City Council elections since
the city was first incorporated.
The original Calabasas High School opened in 1880.
Miguel Leonis was known as the Basque King of Calabasas in
the mid 1800's.
"Tarzan", "M*A*S*H" and "Plant of
the Apes" were all partially filmed in Calabasas.
Lester Agoure Sr. operated a small group of stores at the
site of the Sagebrush Cantina in the 1920's.
The large disk in Tiddleywinks is called the squidger.
Miguel Leonis and his wife Ispirtu
moved into the Leonis Adobe in 1880
200 Million years ago the earth contained one land mass
called Pangaea.
The U.S. paid Russia 7.2 million dollars for the purchase
of Alaska in 1867.
The mineral Fulgerite is formed when lightning hits sand.
A baby turkey is called a Poult.
The first attack on Pearl Harbor was at 7:53am and the
second was at 8:55am
The first
woman in space was Russian Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. The
United States followed twenty years later with Sally Ride in 1983.
A Swan is the offspring of a cob and a pen
The sun travels 186,282 miles per second which takes 8 minutes and 19
seconds to reach the Earth
London was the first city in the world to use parking
meters.
The group Duran Duran got its name from a character in the movie "Barbarella" starring Jane
Fonda
Myrmacologists is the study of ants.
The 100 years war lasted for 116 years, from 1337 to 1453
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