Some Fun Facts about San Francisco

• The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco by Makato Hagiwara.
• The original name for San Francisco was Yerba Buena, meaning "good herb" or "good grass".
• San Francisco has the highest number of homeless inhabitants per capita of any major city in the United States.
• Despite 14 attempts by 36 prisoners over 29 years, no one ever successfully escaped Alcatraz.
• The "crookedest" is not Lombard Street, but Vermont Avenue between 22nd and 23rd.