$600,000 Amount of money Philadelphia cable subscribers have paid per year since 1983 for public-access channels that have never materialized—making Philly the largest city in the country without public access—according to the Philadelphia Community Access Coalition, an organization campaigning for the city to "obey its own law and implement public-access cable TV." Maybe it's just me, but whenever I catch Soul Line on TV, I get the feeling that paying to not have public access shows is the better idea.

3 Number of players on the shamed U.S. World Cup team who are from Pa., including two from Philly: Chris Albright and Bobby Convey. One guess where that choker Claudio Reyna is from. Hint: It's a word for "what he won't be wearing on his torso next time the U.S. fields a World Cup team."

58 Number of years that have passed since Philadelphia hosted a Democratic National Convention, the last of which was July 12, 1948. You can't blame them though, Philadelphia being such a Republican stronghold and all.

20 Approximate number of simultaneously operating model train displays that will occupy a 46,000-square-foot area during the 16th Annual National Train Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center July 7-9. Neat.

2 Number of weeks it took many newspapers to copy the Declaration of Independence from the July 6 edition of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, the first paper to print it. After publishing the landmark document, the Post was promptly protested by those who found the reprinting of self-evident truths highly offensive. You know—Republicans.