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Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL team, is worth $500 million but drives a 1997 minivan and carries a 2003 dumbphone. Until recently he ate at Hooters every Tuesday night for $12.99 all-you-can-eat wings. Davis travels to southern California to get his unusual bowl haircut.
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Oakland California had a ban in place making pinball illegal since 1935. It was finally reversed 80 years later, in June of last year.
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After World War II, Los Angeles, Oakland, and other cities in California recorded large increases in their black populations.
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Jack London Square in Oakland, California is named after Jack London.
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In 1967 California Governor Ronald Reagan passed the Mulford Act, a Republican bill banning the public carrying of loaded firearms... as a response to the Black Panther Party patrolling Oakland neighbourhoods in what would later be called "copwatching".
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In 1927, Inspired by Charles A. Lindbergh's successful trans-Atlantic flight, James D. Dole, the Hawaii pineapple magnate, put up a prize of US$25,000 for the first fixed-wing aircraft to fly the 2,400 mi from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Of the 8 planes, only two survived.
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In 1859, a man called Joshua Norton declared himself "Emperor of the United States." Among his decrees were to abolish Congress, make it illegal to refer to San Francisco as "Frisco", and to build a tunnel or bridge between San Francisco and Oakland, California.
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A news station in Oakland California read off fake names on television of supposed pilots of a crashed flight... give it a listen!
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With a population of 331,918 (2015 CIA estimate), the country of Iceland has a smaller population than the city of Oakland, California (population ~400k) which itself is only the 3rd largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The active ingredient in household bleach is sodium hypochlorite, which is derived from salt. In fact, Clorox is headquartered in Oakland, California because we started making bleach here by running electricity through salt water from San Francisco Bay!
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In 2007, Humberto Hernandez of Oakland, California was struck and killed by a fire hydrant after it was hit by an SUV and sent airborne.
