Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Did you know/2
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![Owens River, California](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Wpdms_shdrlfi020l_owens_river.jpg/100px-Wpdms_shdrlfi020l_owens_river.jpg)
- ... that the U.S. Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California?
- ... that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
- ... that California's Owens River (pictured) has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?
March - June 2004