DID YOU KNOW that in 1943, the Steelers and Eagles, the two professional football teams of Pennsylvania, formed a combined team because neither could field a full team due to players enlistment in World War II? The combined team was called the Steagles and they finished the ‘43 season with a winning record — something the Eagles had yet to achieve as a team.

You may have known that the highest point in Pennsylvania is Mount Davis in Elk Lick Township at 3,213 feet — however, did you know that PA’s highest point is still at a lower elevation than the lowest point in the entire state of Colorado, at 3,315 feet?

Interestingly enough in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg is the only town! Everywhere else is either a city, borough or township.

Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County, near the border with West Virginia, is the oldest-known site of human habitation in North America, dating back 16,000 years. Even more fascinating, the Meadowcroft shelter showed signs of continual human habitation until the 18th century, making it the longest continual spot of human habitation in North America. Until this discovery by archeologists, it was common belief that humans first inhabited North America after crossing the Bering Land Bridge roughly 13,000 years ago.

Between 1834 and 1854 the time it took an individual to travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was cut from 20 (or more) days down to a brief 15 hours — thanks to the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona.

QUICK FUN FACTS: The PA state insect is the firefly and the state beverage is milk; the nation’s oldest golf course is located in Clarion County; PA has the highest Amish population in the world; a PA man created the first pencil with built-in eraser and the first piano in America was built in Philadelphia.