Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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36 Facts About Santa Monica
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Santa Monica has a history of developing environmental and sustainability strategies, with the most recent focus on community-wide carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner.
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Santa Monica has two hospitals: Saint John's Health Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
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Santa Monica rests on a mostly flat slope that angles down toward Ocean Avenue and toward the south.
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Santa Monica usually enjoys cool breezes blowing in from the ocean, which tend to keep the air fresh and clean.
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Santa Monica adopted a Community Energy Independence Initiative, with a goal of achieving complete energy independence by 2020.
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City of Santa Monica is consistently among the most educated cities in the United States, with 23.
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Santa Monica is home to the headquarters of many notable businesses, such as Beachbody, Fatburger, Hulu, Illumination, Otter Media, Lionsgate Films, Macerich, Miramax, the RAND Corporation, Saban Capital Group, The Recording Academy, TOMS Shoes, and Universal Music Group.
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Recently, Santa Monica has emerged as the center of the Los Angeles region called Silicon Beach, and serves as the home of hundreds of venture capital funded startup companies.
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Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome is a National Historic Landmark.
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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s.
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The Santa Monica Playhouse is a popular theater in the city.
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Santa Monica has three main shopping districts: Montana Avenue on the north side, the Downtown District in the city's core, and Main Street on the south end.
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Santa Monica Place, featuring Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom in a three-level outdoor environment, is at the Promenade's southern end.
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Santa Monica is the home to Southern California Aquatics, which was founded by Olympic swimmer Clay Evans and Bonnie Adair.
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Santa Monica is home to the Santa Monica Rugby Club, a semi-professional team that competes in the Pacific Rugby Premiership, the highest-level rugby union club competition in the United States.
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Santa Monica Stairs, a long, steep staircase that leads from north of San Vicente down into Santa Monica Canyon, is a popular spot for outdoor workouts.
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Santa Monica is governed by the Santa Monica City Council, a Council-Manager governing body with seven members elected at-large.
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Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District provides public education at the elementary and secondary levels.
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Santa Monica College is a community college founded in 1929.
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Santa Monica has a bike action plan and launched a bicycle sharing system in November 2015.
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Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award by the League of American Bicyclists.
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Local bicycle advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
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Santa Monica is thought to be one of the leaders for bicycle infrastructure and programming in Los Angeles County although cycling infrastructure in Los Angeles County in general remains very poor compared to other major cities.
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Santa Monica Freeway begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east.
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In Santa Monica, there is a road sign designating this route as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway.
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Just east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, the San Diego Freeway, a major north–south route in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
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Santa Monica has purchased the first ZeroTruck all-electric medium-duty truck.
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City of Santa Monica is served by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's bus lines.
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Santa Monica has a municipal wireless network which provides several free city Wi-Fi hotspots distributed around the city.
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One of the oldest exterior shots in Santa Monica is Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage which shows much of 2nd Street.
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The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World included several scenes shot in Santa Monica, including those along the California Incline, which led to the movie's treasure spot, "The Big W".
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Santa Monica was featured in Roland Emmerich's disaster film 2012 (2009).
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The Santa Monica pier is shown in the main theme of CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.
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