Some Things You do not Need to Know About...

Somerville...

Barak Obama lived here when he went to Harvard.

Hank Hanson, who helped put up the first flag on Iwo Jima (it was taken down and replaced by a bigger one that made it into the famous picture) grew up in Somerville. He was killed on Iwo Jima 5 days after the flag went up.

Archibald Query invented Marshmellow Fluff in Somerville.

Nick Gomez, director of "The Sopranos", is a native.

Lots of real gangsters are natives too.

Somerville is the most dense municipality in New England.