Factious Factoids

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• As of the 2000 census 4,886 people, 1,827 households, and 1,231 families resided in the Penns Grove.  The population density was about five thousand people per square mile. There were just over two thousand housing units.  The racial makeup of the borough was 48% White, 395% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 8.% from other races, and 3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17 of the population.  The median income for a household in the borough was $26,227, and the median income for a family was $34,076.   About 21% of the population lived below the poverty line.
• Pretty Boy Floyd was once sought by federal authorities for having robbed a bank in Penns Grove,. New Jersy.
• The cosmic relationship of Penns Grove to other celestial bodies is perhaps best expressed in in terms of eastern culture dialectics.  Or, put more simply, according to some authorites, Penns Grove’s interstitial polarity expressed through yin and yang is similar to the inverse cosign of a bipolar magnetic field.
• Penns Grove, written in hexadecimals, is 50 45 4E 4E 53    47 52 4F 56 45
• Some anagrams of the words “Penns Grove” include:
  Seven Prong
  Even Prongs
  Governs Pen
  Govern Pens
  Evens Prong
  Vegs En Porn
  Vegs Pen Nor
  Veg En Porns
  Veg Pens Nor
  Veg Ens Porn
  Pen Rev Song
• Contrary to what many people think, there is an occasional crime committed in Penns Grove.  Here as some figures:

Type            2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006
Murders           0      0      0      0      0      0
Rapes             4      4      0      0      4      0
Robberies         6     15      6     11     22     21
Assaults          5      5     14     22     40     25
Burglaries       15     18     53     51     49     59
Thefts          101     75    126    144    171    157
Auto thefts      12      8      8     12     22     18
Arson             2      0      3      2      1      1

• There are several colleges an universities near Penns Grove:
  WIDENER UNIVERSITY-MAIN CAMPUS (about 11 miles; CHESTER, PA; Full-time enrollment: 3,646)
  DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 14 miles; MEDIA, PA; FT enrollment: 5,248)
  UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (about 15 miles; NEWARK, DE; FT enrollment: 17,786)
  WILMINGTON COLLEGE (about 16 miles; NEW CASTLE, DE; FT enrollment: 3,087)
  WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (about 18 miles; WEST CHESTER, PA; FT enrollment: 10,419)
  DELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMM COLL-STANTON-WILMINGTON (about 19 miles; NEWARK, DE; FT enrollment: 3,817)
  GLOUCESTER COUNTY COLLEGE (about 19 miles; SEWELL, NJ; FT enrollment: 3,135)
• Routes 48 and 130 intersect in lovely Penns Grove.

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