Pennsylvania Fun Facts:

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1.  Pennsylvania was the first of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate.  

2.  In 1909, the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.  

3.  Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.  

4.  In 1913, the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.  

5.  In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.  

6. Bob Hoffman of York is hailed the world round as the Father of Weightlifting. Hoffman started York Barbell Corporation in
1932 and preached the gospel of physical fitness throughout his life as a U.S. Olympic coach, businessman, and philanthropist.  

7.  The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 1784.  

8.  Philadelphia saw the first Zoological garden in July 1874.  

9.  Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.  

10. In Hazleton, there is a law on the books that prohibits a person from sipping a carbonated drink while lecturing students in a school auditorium.  

11. In Philadelphia in 1775 Johann Behrent built the first piano in America calling it under the name "Piano Forte."  

12. Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion.  

13. Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia.  

14. "Doctor, if you don't give me something to help me breathe, I'm going to stop!" came the urgent cry of 16-year old Frederick Gable of Loganville. Vowing not to lose another patient to pneumonia, Dr. George Holtzapple successfully created the first application of oxygen, thus saving his patient's life and winning international fame through his discovery. The year was 1885.  

15. Stewartstown hired its first police officer in 1876. He was also the town lamp lighter.

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