Philadelphia, PA a.k.a. Philly, City of Brotherly Love, Cradle of Liberty * Benjamin Franklin founded the nation's first library, The Library Company of Philadelphia, in 1731. It served as the Library of Congress from the Revolutionary War until 1800 * Superstitious? .. Overshadowing the Penn statue was rumored to start “The Curse of Billy Penn,” preventing Philly's four major sports teams from winning championships. The curse held until a Penn statuette was placed atop the new Comcast Center in 2007, reestablishing him as the highest point in the city; the Phillies won the 2008 World Series * You can see pieces of Einstein's brain, a malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland, a piece of John Wilkes Booth's thorax, a 9-foot long human colon, and a corpse that turned into soap at The Mütter Museum
