California became the 31st state on September 9 1850. It doesn’t much matter now that it entered the Union as a free state, but it sure mattered in 1850. Most people who’ve never been to California think the whole state is like L.A. They couldn’t be more wrong. There are at least 85 whole countries in the world that are smaller than California. California has more dairy cattle than Wisconsin. 300,000 tons of grapes grow in California every year. The biggest almond processing plant in the world is the Blue Diamond plant in Sacramento. If you laid a year’s worth of California strawberries end to end, you could circle the earth 15 times. Did you know the highest and lowest points in the continental United States are both in California? Mount Whitney tops out at 14,495 feet above sea level, and Bad Water in Death Valley is 282 feet below.
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