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Geeky Facts About San Francisco

November 11 2015 6:17 AM ET via RheumReports RheumReports

I'm sitting down to a great dinner right now at Roka Akor restaurant. Fantastic food. I recommend it. 

Did you know there are only 26 gas stations in San Francisco, but there are 130 Walgreens and 90 Starbucks?

If you lived in San Francisco you could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 3 years at different restaurants and never eat at the same one twice. 

The house from the movie Mrs. Doubtfire is in San Francisco.  Ooh dear ... RIP Robin Williams.

George Lucas lived in San Francisco and the cranes in the bay close to Oakland inspired the ATAT walkers in Star Wars, and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco was the inspiration for R2D2.

The last prisoner from Alcatraz was released in 1963.

The Trans America Pyramid is the tallest building in San Francisco.

The gates of Chinatown are the only gates made by China outside of China (Really? I thought everything was made in China).

You can't build a place that sells alcohol within 20 metres of a Church.

You're allowed to be naked in San Francisco as long as you think that you are dressed. This explains a lot of what goes on in the street. 

The Walking Dead was not filmed in San Francisco although you might wonder. 


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