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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @lisaz8733
    @lisaz8733 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      LOVE YA LisaZ and Fam!!! Thanks You.

    • @lisaz8733
      @lisaz8733 11 месяцев назад

      @@ODDySEEy You're welcome!

  • @sharons5714
    @sharons5714 7 месяцев назад +10

    In my part of PA, we call fireflies lightening bugs.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  7 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, in this part too... but apparently there are a lot of weirdo's out there. ;)

    • @hildadionne8184
      @hildadionne8184 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yup and diabetes was called the sugar, grandmas got the sugar 😊

  • @Lindisfarne666
    @Lindisfarne666 11 месяцев назад +18

    As a Pennsylvanian, I apologize to the rest of the world for Philly. We dont like them either.

    • @jamy8575
      @jamy8575 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, we have disdain for Philly. They are so very pompous when they say water.... "wuter"

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +3

      Well, as a Philadelphian, born and bred, they don't need your apology and really don't care if you like them or not. But yeah, I agree... something has to go and fix that city from the cesspool it has become.

    • @jamy8575
      @jamy8575 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@ODDySEEy I have friends from Philly. They are fine folks.. What myself and the other person might be speaking to-substantial % of prison denizens all across the state are "Philly" So workers at said prisons see Philly as a problem.. I never worked at said prisons, but know people that have and it is what they have to say.. Just hoping to help ya see why people say it.

    • @LaurieValdez-zk3dy
      @LaurieValdez-zk3dy 20 дней назад +1

      Temple University Hospital 🏥

  • @lynpatricia6854
    @lynpatricia6854 8 месяцев назад +4

    The odds of hitting a deer factoid threw me for a loop. 40 years living in NW NJ - 0 hits. 20 years in Central PA - 3. We have 3 small herds living around the 3 mile stretch of the road I live off.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  8 месяцев назад +1

      When I researched it, I too was thrown for a loop. I have been driving for 35 years and have still been "lucky" to not connect my vehicle with these animals (that I see in the thousands annually on the side of the road when they are STILL ALIVE)

  • @elainashelley1636
    @elainashelley1636 Месяц назад +2

    How about doing a video about the Yankee Pennamite War and the land dispute over the Wyoming Valley with Connecticut?

  • @robertsiebenrock3997
    @robertsiebenrock3997 18 дней назад +2

    Shoo fly pie is it!

  • @robertsiebenrock3997
    @robertsiebenrock3997 18 дней назад +3

    I knew that!

  • @DDExplores
    @DDExplores 11 месяцев назад +3

    Cool facts ! Looking forward to part 3,,,,

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      Maybe a part 3 (most likely) but I kinda burned through a LOT of the good ones.

  • @robertsieber8374
    @robertsieber8374 11 месяцев назад +3

    Enjoyed the video and facts on PA! My 8th great grandfather was one of the first Amish settlers in America.

    • @Gretchenmomof7
      @Gretchenmomof7 11 месяцев назад +1

      Mine too! Jacob Hochstetler

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      I find old families interesting. I am only second gen Irish/German... so when I hear someone has 4-8 or more generations in the US, I am mind blown.

    • @robertsieber8374
      @robertsieber8374 11 месяцев назад

      @@ODDySEEy yep. 9/16/1736 on that side!

  • @hildadionne8184
    @hildadionne8184 6 месяцев назад +4

    Scrapple is popular 😅

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  6 месяцев назад +1

      Scrapple is a dish for the Kings and Queens of Pennsylvania. LOVE Scrapple!!!

  • @ibiwizi123
    @ibiwizi123 11 месяцев назад +2

    Cool facts! would love to see something on the Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam (Sunbury Fabri-dam) , Lake Augusta, Shikellamy State Park areas.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      On the list for future.

  • @rogergarman
    @rogergarman 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great job Scott!!! I did know most of these, but it's always great to learn more about or state. Keep up the great work, I appreciate all your hard work!!!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      We do have a ton of crazy and off the wall fun facts.

  • @robertsiebenrock3997
    @robertsiebenrock3997 18 дней назад +2

    Pen-al-vain-ya as said!

  • @Gretchenmomof7
    @Gretchenmomof7 11 месяцев назад +4

    I did know that William Pitt was never in the colonies/US. I have to ask, why did you pronounce Chatham with the "th?" I grew up in Chatham NJ and I've never heard it pronounced that way.
    My Amish ancestor came from Switzerland in 1754 and I will say, many of the descendants seemed more Mennonite than Old Order Amish, including my branch.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      I SLIPPED... read it 4 times in scripting it and did it correctly each time... then SLIPPED... and said, "OH WELL"... (in my head, Gretchen is gonna call me out for this one). And well, HERE WE ARE. Love ya!

    • @Gretchenmomof7
      @Gretchenmomof7 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@ODDySEEy It's all good! We had discussed Matthias, so I thought maybe you knew something I didn't this time too lol.

  • @KennethLocherII
    @KennethLocherII 11 месяцев назад +2

    The state flower 'traffic cone'.....lol

  • @JJinPhila
    @JJinPhila 11 месяцев назад +3

    PA was the site of the shortest marriage in the US.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      I only learned about that when that youtuber in London actually did a stunt to be married and divorced faster than anyone else in the world.

    • @JJinPhila
      @JJinPhila 11 месяцев назад

      @@ODDySEEy It would have to be less than 5 minutes. The groom died at the altar.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      @@JJinPhila In March 2023, British RUclipsr Max Vash married a fan in London's streets for 2 minutes and 56 seconds.

  • @brianwalter7387
    @brianwalter7387 11 месяцев назад +1

    I shared with a stranger last week, your channel, hes pumped..

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you for sharing me out :D

  • @BernieLomax-g8j
    @BernieLomax-g8j 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great Video keep them coming. Other known facts about Pennsylvania the First Steam Railroad Engine in all of America ran in the town of Honesdale that ran on the first Railway line constructed August 8, 1829 a year later B&O line was constructed. Jim Thorpe a Famous athlete born in Oklahoma which later his body was bought by the towns people of Mauck Chunk and his corpse was buried at location in center of town of Mauck Chunk aka Jim Thorpe PA for many reasons most known reason is to Shine bright letting new people entering the town that Jim Thorpe is a Millionaires Town. Jim Thorpe aka Mauck Chunk is home to the Original Switchback Railroad line as well. PA is also home to the Oldest still standing American Concrete Kilns known as the Saylor Park Industrial Museum.
    Pennsylvania is so overlooked by so many people it isn't even funny at this point anymore.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      "Pennsylvania is so overlooked by so many people it isn't even funny at this point anymore."

  • @brianwalter7387
    @brianwalter7387 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and videos..best!!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Glad you like them!

  • @hondrta
    @hondrta 11 месяцев назад +1

    I love this by the way. Glad you made a second one. There shall be a third !

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Maybe a third... we'll see.

  • @TobyGobi
    @TobyGobi 11 месяцев назад +4

    Thé official Pennsylvania Historian should be…Scott!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Aww, shucks. Makin me blush.

  • @dixiecup3928
    @dixiecup3928 11 месяцев назад +1

    Happy Loka Coka Coka Coka to you too! Another awesome video! Oldest human habitation site: Researchers are slowly admitting officially that humans were here long, long before the land bridge theory and came from China. Because they keep finding sites that date long before the model. And scientists are able to reproduce the carbon 14 results from these ancient sites. Researchers are now investigating new other ways humans came here to america. So the tide is turning slowly.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      The wife asked why I laughed for no apparent reason when I read one of the facts. I told her, "Wait till the end and it will make sense". Thanks for watching all the way through, Dixiecup!

  • @jamy8575
    @jamy8575 11 месяцев назад

    Pennsylvania has so much UNKNOWN buried history....
    My father cultivated a garden for 40 years. I personally watched him remove a 100 plus year old tree & stump from center of 1/4 acre garden area at age 6... 40 years later as his garden slowly eroded DOWN hill. He would wheel Barrel'd it back up hill. After a decade of tilling and removing rocks and toting dirt UP hill... He finds a tractor tire INSIDE this garden. His "village" has maybe 100 inhabitants & 10x's the grave sites. It HAD an airport, race track, hotel, car dealership &&&& NOW no commercial business whatsoever.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Yup... and I am uncovering that history a little bit at a time.

  • @rogergorske6291
    @rogergorske6291 11 месяцев назад +1

    I grew up in johnsonburg pa elk county during world war 2 johnsonburg had the most men per capita to enter the service

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      THAT is a neat fact.

  • @Imnotlostimexploring
    @Imnotlostimexploring 8 дней назад

    Great video Scott! I’m a Pennsylvania creator. I really enjoyed this one! Just hit that subscribe button :)!

  • @JJinPhila
    @JJinPhila 11 месяцев назад +1

    Old Overholt was produced by the family steel baron Henry Clay Frick.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      So funny that Frick was as much a baron as the railroaders and other industry tycoons... but is written off in history as a second class citizen at best.

    • @JJinPhila
      @JJinPhila 11 месяцев назад

      @@ODDySEEy He never played the philanthropist. He also set his children in competition with each other, so one was too willing to burnish the name.

  • @jojohns1949
    @jojohns1949 11 месяцев назад +1

    You are the the Poet laureate of PA IMHO Thank you

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the kind words.

  • @mariadennis7579
    @mariadennis7579 11 месяцев назад +2

    You can tell you live in Huntingdon County...THEY ARE GOBS NOT WHOOPIE PIES!!!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Sorry, I don't speak Pittsburgease... YOU'S Guys will just have to deal with it. Now to go drink some SODA.

    • @bradydennis9572
      @bradydennis9572 11 месяцев назад

      what? yinz don't drink pop?? don't spill it on your shirt. you'll have to warsh it in col' wooder@@ODDySEEy

  • @dayhikedave
    @dayhikedave 11 месяцев назад +1

    👍enjoyed.
    Figures Philadelphia 😡😠🤬
    Thanks for sharing 👍🙂🙏

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      Philly keeps it Classy and REAL. LOL

  • @WilliamWeicht
    @WilliamWeicht 11 месяцев назад +3

    My Mennonite ancestors came to Pennsylvania in 1717. They were Swiss German.

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      Would be neat to see what people claimed to be in the German and Austrian area's of the time. Most people don't realize that Germany didn't exist until 1871.

  • @hondrta
    @hondrta 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wooohooo I’m here !

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      You were late :P

  • @douglaskerr6813
    @douglaskerr6813 11 месяцев назад +1

    I live in Philadelphia and i despise it

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад

      I go out in 2004. Good luck and be safe. I know it has gotten really bad in the past 4 years.

  • @bradydennis9572
    @bradydennis9572 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's called a GOB prove me wrong!

    • @ODDySEEy
      @ODDySEEy  11 месяцев назад +1

      PA Westerners with their weird language and accents.

    • @bradydennis9572
      @bradydennis9572 11 месяцев назад +2

      At least we don't pronounce water as wooder! 🤣@@ODDySEEy

    • @bradydennis9572
      @bradydennis9572 11 месяцев назад +2

      Which sounds right: "throw me down the stairs, my pants". or "throw my pants down the stairs". 🤔

    • @bradydennis9572
      @bradydennis9572 11 месяцев назад +2

      I'm not above going to a cafe in Pittsburgh and asking for Hunts Catsup either...

  • @fatkidgames4381
    @fatkidgames4381 12 дней назад +1

    I know where, according to the Forbes expedition papers, the first 2 white men were killed in what would become Somerset County. Its along a small tributary of the Stonycreek in Quemahoning twp. Close to Shade twp. Two of Forbes advance scouts were along the creek and were attacked and killed. At least that's as far as what was recorded in the journal of the expedition