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Pennsylvania’s
Heartland - Fast Facts:
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PA has no
sales tax on clothing.
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The State
College Area High School was the first school in the country
to teach driver’s education in 1958.
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Originally
Bellefonte, a town now with a population of 5,000, was once
considered to be PA’s capital.
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The
earliest successful experiment of Thomas A. Edison with
electric lighting was made in Sunbury.
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Some PA
inventions include Daylight Savings Time, the Ferris Wheel,
cream cheese, the typewriter, the banana split, Bingo, the
accordion, and the Big Mac.
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The
Constitution of the US, The American Declaration of
Independence, and
Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address were all written in PA.
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Every
Pennsylvanian is within 15 minutes of a state park, state
forest, or game land.
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Bill Cosby,
Jimmy Stewart, and Jim Thorpe all grew up in Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania
has the 17th largest economy in the world, even
larger than Russia’s.
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Over 40% of
the
U.S.
population is within a day’s drive of Pennsylvania’s
Heartland.
Why Not Pennsylvania?
Did you know…
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In Alabama,
it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in
church.
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In Tennessee
children may not play games on Sunday without a license.
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In
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, it is illegal to get an animal drunk in a
public park.
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Green Bay,
Wisconsin proudly proclaims itself "The Toilet Paper Capital of
The World."
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In Juneau,
Alaska, owners of flamingos may not let their pet into barber
shops.
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In
California, women may not drive in a house coat.
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In Florida,
it is illegal to sing in a public place while wearing a
swimsuit.
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In Boise,
Idaho, residents may not fish from a giraffe's back.
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In South
Bend, Indiana, it is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.
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In Kentucky,
you can not dye a duckling blue and offer it for sale unless
more than six are for sale at the same time.
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In Baltimore,
Maryland, it's illegal to throw bales of hay from a second-story
window within the city limits.
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In
Massachusetts, goatees are illegal unless you first pay a
special license fee for the privilege of wearing one in public.
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In Minnesota,
a person may not cross state lines with a duck atop his head.
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In Eureka,
Nevada, men who wear moustaches are forbidden from kissing
women.
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In New
Jersey, it is against the law for a man to knit during the
fishing season.
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In South
Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese
factory.
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In Vermont,
it is illegal to whistle underwater.
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In Richmond,
Virginia, it is illegal to flip a coin in a restaurant to see
who pays for a coffee.
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In Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, if one is thought of as offensive looking, it is
illegal to be in public during the day.
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In Wyoming,
you may not take a picture of a rabbit from January to April
without an official permit.
Just For Fun!
Did you know…
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Kermit the
Frog is left-handed.
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The lifespan
of a tastebud is ten days.
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The launching
mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could
throw a pickup truck over a mile.
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The calories
burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of
water to a boil.
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There is no
Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
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A toothpick
is the object most often choked on by Americans.
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A typical
double mattress contains as many as two million house dust
mites.
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If done
perfectly, any Rubix Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
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There are 293
ways to make change for a dollar.
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In 1901, the
average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The
average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. Maybe
that’s why only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had
a bathtub.
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Every person
has a unique tongue print.
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The first CD
pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.
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Bats always
turn left when exiting a cave.
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Charlie
Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike
contest.
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By raising
your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand. The population of Texas is 20 million, not including
the 16 million cattle. Fish can't blink. They don't have
eyelids.
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There are 72
feet of nerve fiber on each square inch of your hand. To
survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in
food each day.
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