PA: How much do you know about Pennsylvania?

We have to admit we’ve learned a lot more since we started looking into facts about the Keystone State.

From Uncovering PA: One of four surviving Apollo command module boilerplates still in existence sits in front of a Dairy Queen in Franklin.

There is only one town in Pennsylvania: Bloomsburg.

Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County, Pennsylvania, is the oldest-known site of human habitation in North America dating back 16,000 years.

Until the early 1800s, the largest shipping port in North America was in Philadelphia.

The only piece of Abraham Lincoln’s tomb that was ever removed sits at the base of the Civil War Memorial in Lewistown. It was given to the community in honor of Logan Guard, which were the first soldiers to volunteer to fight in the Civil War.

Hugh J. Ward invented Bingo in Pittsburgh in the early 1920s. He originally called the game Beano and used beans as markers.

Leap the Dips at Altoona’s Lakemont Park is the oldest, still-operating roller coaster in the world. It first ran in 1902.

The Warner Brothers got their start leasing the Cascade Theater in New Castle from 1906-1907. They borrowed chairs from the nearby funeral home, but had to return them (and thus were not able to show films) when someone died.

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia had indoor plumbing before the White House did. Crayola Crayons makes all of their products in Pennsylvania. They produce nearly three billion crayons each year, enough to encircle the globe six times.

The Wanamaker Organ is the largest, still-operational pipe organ in the world. It is located inside a Macy’s Department Store in Center City Philadelphia. Free concerts are offered six days a week.

Before he became an assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth invested a significant sum of money into an oil venture in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He lost all of his investment.