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Pennsylvania’s Eighty Four was named after a number

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Choosing an arbitrary number to represent your entire community feels like a massive failure of imagination. Nobody is even entirely sure why this specific digit was chosen, leaving the residents to eternally shrug whenever anyone asks.

Pennsylvania’s Eighty Four was named after a number
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