Best things about California<\/p>\n
With a population<\/a> of about 38 million people, California is the most densely populated state. It is also third-largest by area. In fact, every eighth person in America<\/a> is from California!<\/p>\n Before the extinction of golden grizzly bears, California was best known as the \u2018Grizzly Bear State.\u2019 As humans started to settle in California, the species were wiped out and the state began to commonly known as the \u2018Golden State\u2019, given due to the \u2018gold-rush.\u2019 The state flag now honours grizzly bear on the flag.<\/p>\n Eureka \u2013 I\u2019ve found it was officially declared as California\u2019s state motto in 1963. It dates back to the Greek Scholar, Archimedes, who is believed to have a sudden realization, in his bathtub, for a way to purify gold. The Gold Rush was such that he ran out of the room, naked, to share his finding!<\/p>\n Death Valley is the hottest and driest national park, with a below-sea-level basin. With a melting point of, 134\u00b0F has recorded the highest air temperature of the valley on July 10, 1913. It rains so seldom in the Death Valley, even some deserts receive more rain!<\/p>\n California produces 89% of the United States\u2019 wine. Given the amount of wine it produces, California is considered as the \u2018Mecca of Wine.\u2019<\/p>\n Richard and Maurice McDonald opened first McDonald\u2019s ever in 1940 in San Bernardino, California. They were the first ones to relish upon the appetizing burgers!<\/p>\n Marilyn Monroe, previously known as Norma Jean, began her journey by being crowned as the first Artichoke\u2019s Queen in 1947. Castroville in California was self-proclaimed as the \u2018Artichoke Center of the World.\u2019 The famous actress\u2019s first push was this state!<\/p>\n Exceeding $2.7 trillion, California\u2019s GDP rose dramatically. Not only has California become the fifth largest economy of the world, but it has also surpassed the United Kingdom\u2019s economy in 2018.<\/p>\n California has secured its position of being the sole state to host both, Summer- and Winter Olympics. Winter Olympics was hosted by Squaw Valley in 1960 while the Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles in 1984.<\/p>\n Inspired by omikuji, a Japanese fortune tradition, the first fortune cookies were made by Benkyodo, a bakery in San Francisco. Founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, David Jung, claimed to first invent the fortune cookie in 1918.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Best things about California Every eighth person in America is from California. With a population of about 38 million people, California…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisamericandream.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Grizzly Bear State!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Eureka!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Death Valley<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Wine Maker!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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First-Ever McDonald\u2019s!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Marilyn Monroe \u2013 Artichoke Queen<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Fifth Largest World\u2019s Economy<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Summer and Winter Olympics<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Fortune Cookie Invention!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n