<p><strong>Top 10 LA Facts from <a href="http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/3103/Top_10_LA_Facts">AnOther Magazine</a> (1 and 10 are the best):</strong><a href="http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/3103/Top_10_LA_Facts"><br/></a></p>
<p><strong>1. </strong>Los Angeles has numerous unusual laws that are still in use such as animals being banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school or place of worship, it is illegal to cry on the witness stand, toads may not be licked and zoot suits are prohibited. <br/><br/><strong>2. </strong>Los Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer every year, because they are on opposite sides of the infamous San Andreas Fault.</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>The average citizen of Los Angeles eats 28 pounds of fried chicken, 50 pounds of French fries, 22 gallons of ice cream, 12 pounds of tortilla chips and drinks 325 bottles of beer every year. <strong><br/></strong><br/><strong>4. </strong>The Shirley Temple, a non-alcoholic cocktail, was invented in Los Angeles. <br/><br/><strong>5. </strong>The city flower is the bird of paradise and the city tree is the coral tree.<br/><br/><strong>6. </strong>Los Angeles has the largest number of women-owned businesses in the nation.<br/><br/><strong>7. </strong>Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula,” which, translated from Spanish, means “The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river of Porziuncola.”</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>The Disneyland monorail, built in the 1950s, was the first working monorail in the Western hemisphere.</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>Helmut Newton was in Los Angeles with June, his wife of 55 years, when he lost control of his car when leaving the Chateau Marmont hotel. The Newtons had spent winters in Los Angeles for the last quarter-century, living at the hotel. They lived the rest of the year in Monte Carlo.<br/><br/><strong>10.</strong> There are sixty-five people in Los Angeles who have the legal name Jesus Christ.</p>