August 18-24, 2005
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Running Numbers20,000 Number of women Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with in his autobiography, A View From Above. If you want to be specific, he said 1.2 women per day since he was 15. Basketball's best rebounder was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 21, 1936.
18 Philadelphia's rank in a study by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research that charts the most liberal American cities. And for once, we beat New York (21) and Boston (24). You can keep your good sports teams, suckers. We've got the gayborhood!
4 lbs. 4 oz. World record weight for biggest tomato. Bring your most freakish produce to compete in the official "Tomato Weigh-In" at the New Jersey Tomato Festival, Aug. 21 at the Wiggins Waterfront Park and Marina in Camden.
15 Maximum daily capacity for the National Archives' Summer 2005 Family History Camp, Aug. 22-25. Call 215-606-0100 to check availability.
311 Fooled you! It's just the name of a band! The classy veteran rap-rockers named after the police code for indecent exposure play Aug. 24 at the Festival Pier.
20,000 Number of objects contained in the Mütter Museum's collection, which includes 900 fluid-preserved specimens (slimy stuff in jars) and more than 10,000 medical instruments (creepy metal thingers). According to an episode preview, the History Channel series Weird U.S. will stop at "the world's weirdest medical museum in Philadelphia" on the Aug. 18 episode at 11 p.m. They don't actually say that it's the Mütter Museum, so God help us if there's some place weirder around here.
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