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| Pennsylvania Facts |
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Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate. |
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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, Pennsylvania. 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. |
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The Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania opened in 1924. At that time the 5,700 foot facility was the longest artificially ventilated automobile tunnel in the world. |
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