Facts about Los Angeles
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Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, established in 1923, occupies 110 acres and remains one of the largest film studios in the world by acreage.
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Downtown Los Angeles sits on an aquifer containing approximately 4 million acre-feet of groundwater, which supplies roughly 40 percent of the city's water needs.
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Los Angeles Port handles approximately 9 million twenty-foot equivalent containers annually, making it the busiest container port in the United States since 2014.
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Each year, approximately 50 million tourists visit Los Angeles, making it one of the most visited cities in the United States by international and domestic travelers combined.
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Roughly 15 million people visited the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Branch in downtown LA during its first decade after reopening in 2006 following a five-year renovation.
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Beneath Los Angeles lies the Newport-Inglewood Fault, which produced a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in 1961 that caused significant damage across the city.
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Over 300 neighborhoods comprise Los Angeles, making it one of the most geographically subdivided major cities in the United States.
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In 1923, Hollywood erected a 45-foot-tall sign on Mount Lee to advertise a local real estate development, with each letter measuring 14 feet wide.
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The 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles generated approximately 223 million dollars in revenue, making it the most profitable Summer Games at that time.