there’s a (to me) much more interesting story in the question “why did ben franklin have a coat of arms in the first place?”

this fishlike creature, featured on ben franklin’s coat of arms and the university of pennsylvania logo, is theoretically a dolphin.

the opening of the philadelphia zoo (america's first zoo) was delayed by almost fifteen years because of a little thing called, i'm reading my notes here, "the civil war?"

the construction of the wanamaker pipe organ went more than $40k (something like $1,400,000 today) over budget when it was originally built for the St. Louis World's Fair. it was then one of the largest organs in the world.

since being moved to Philadelphia, it has been enlarged twice.

it is virtuous to drive game designers to madness.