Today we welcome the cloud computing event of the year, Dreamforce 2012.

If you're one of 90,000+ attendees, you'll be filling the streets of San Francisco faster than their famous fog. But don't get lost in the clouds because we're here to give you the most tweetable facts about this conference's bustling home.

Use these facts to impress your coworkers between Dreamforce sessions, start up a conversation at the Cloud Expo or yell them out during the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert. Or you can just click the heck out of these Tweet buttons.

1. Alcatraz was once a military fort. Tweet This Line!

2. The bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor.Tweet This Line!

3. San Francisco cable cars are the only moving National Historic Landmark.Tweet This Line!

4. Denim jeans were invented in San Francisco.Tweet This Line!

5. The Japanese Hagiwara family invented Chinese fortune cookies here.Tweet This Line!

6. 38 painters constantly paint the Golden Gate Bridge.Tweet This Line!

7. The Golden Gate Bridge has enough steel wires to circle the earth 3.5 times.Tweet This Line!

8. The Golden Gate Bridge is the world's second largest single span bridge.Tweet This Line!

9. San Francisco is built on 43 hills.Tweet This Line!

10. San Francisco is home to the American Antique Slot Machine Museum.Tweet This Line!

11. The San Francisco Opera is the 2nd largest opera co. in North America.Tweet This Line!

12. Pier 39 on the San Francisco Bay is home to sea lions basking in the sun.Tweet This Line!

13. In 1850, over 600 ships were abandoned in the bay.Tweet This Line!

14. It is 231.9 square miles.Tweet This Line!

15. San Francisco was founded June 29, 1776.Tweet This Line!

16. San Francisco was initially called Yearba Buena and was changed in 1848.Tweet This Line!

17. It is one of the richest cities in the world.Tweet This Line!

18. Chop Suey was created in San Francisco in 1878 during a banquet.Tweet This Line!

19. It has hundreds of coffee shops including the first coffee shop. Tweet This Line!

20. It is said the Godfather trilogy was scripted in San Francisco.Tweet This Line!

21. Nearly overnight, the gold rush transformed a fishing village into this city.Tweet This Line!

22. The computer mouse was invented in Silicon Valley.Tweet This Line!

23. It is full of crooked streets, with Vermont Avenue being the most crooked.Tweet This Line!

24. San Francisco outlawed burials in 1901.Tweet This Line!

25. Windows XP's default wallpaper of rolling hills and blue sky was shot in Napa Valley.Tweet This Line!

Share your facts, tips and more on Twitter using the #df12 and #marketingcloud hashtags. We'll be there engaging all week!

 

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