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Did you know ...

• the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco houses one of the world's most comprehensive libraries of academic sexological and erotological resources?
• the San Francisco garter snake is an endangered species capable of digesting toxic newts but is not found in San Francisco?
• the Council on Religion and the Homosexual once held a fundraiser dance despite intimidation from San Francisco police?
• the 1878 constitution of San Francisco's Congregation Beth Israel prohibited members from praying out loud?
• on Floodplain, San Francisco-based string quartet the Kronos Quartet plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu, including the beguèna maridhia, which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre?
• restaurateur Pascal Rigo owns the oldest flour mill in San Francisco?
• the artist Arthur Nahl was the first elected Leader of the San Francisco Olympic Club?
• the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco?
• when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office?
• with a voyage of 59 days, the SS American (pictured) set a 1901 record for the fastest New York – San Francisco ocean passage?
• veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
• the tower located at 100 McAllister St (pictured) in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings?
• the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus (pictured) were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
• if its congestion pricing proposal is approved, San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to implement this method of reducing traffic congestion?
• because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?
• Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco, California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car?
• San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
• Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?
• England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?
• agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
• BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
• American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
• Elmer Robinson was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco?
• Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club?
• an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?
• Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan, China, is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, United States, as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world?
• Halloween in the Castro, San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
• George Hardy, who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco?
• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?