1 Number of City Papers observed being used as cage liner in a mall pet store. Sometimes, as a journalist, you get discouraged. Seeing this, well it makes it all worth it.

2 Number of verses in Pennsylvania's official state song, "Pennsylvania," signed into law November 29, 1990. The chorus: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania,/ May your future be,/ filled with honor everlasting/ as your history. Took two guys to write that.

13 Number of weeks contained in Beer Season, celebrated with a different beer each week, starting Nov. 28 at the Northeast's Grey Lodge Pub at 6235 Frankford Ave.

86 Number of years Philadelphia has hosted its Thanksgiving Day parade, making it the oldest in the country. The only things more boring and pointless than facts like that are parades. And here come some Mummers with guns. Sequined guns.

20,000 Estimated number of people living with HIV in Philadelphia County. Join Philadelphia FIGHT for its World AIDS Day cocktail reception benefiting the Jonathon Lax Treatment Center, Dec. 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel.