Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/10

• ... that the former fur trading outpost of Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian installation in North America?
• ... that the Pentium chip (pictured) was so named because Intel was unable to trademark numbers such as 386, 486, 586?
• ... that Scott McKenzie's hippie anthem San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) was written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas to promote the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?
• ... that BART and Amtrak share the Richmond rail station, connecting the Bay Area with Sacramento and the Central Valley?
  February 2007