13 things that only happen in Silicon Valley

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How many Pied Piper T-shirts have you spotted in the wild?

Silicon Valley is probably the only place in the world where you can survive on Soylent, live out of a van, and befriend a mall-cop robot.

To celebrate the area's triumphs and weirdness, we rounded up the most Silicon Valley things that happen in Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area.