Championship! Philadelphia! Trivia!

The 2012 LifeSmarts National Championship is next month! With teams from across the country headed to Philadelphia this weekend, let’s take a look at some Philly trivia:

• The Liberty Bell weighs 2,080 pounds.
• Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion and was once the United States capital city.
• Benjamin Jackson produced the country's first mustard in 1768 and sold it to fellow Philadelphians in glass bottles.
• Benjamin Franklin demonstrated electrical cooking in 1749. He killed a turkey by electric shock, then roasted it over a fire started by his "electrified bottle".
• The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia in 1784.
• Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is the largest city park with over 8,000 acres.
• In a house at 239 Arch Street, Betsy Ross fashioned the first American flag.
• If you dug straight down from Philadelphia to the other side of the globe you would end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
• The nation's first hospital opened in Philadelphia 1751.
• The Philadelphia Mint produces over 30 million coins per day.
• Philadelphia has more public art than any city in the country.
• Benjamin Franklin and four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried in Philadelphia’s Christ Church cemetery.

See you all in Philly!